Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry

This EO directs federal agencies to streamline and expedite regulatory processes—including environmental reviews, licensing, and permitting—for commercial space launches, reentry operations, and spaceport infrastructure, aiming to make the United States a leader in space innovation and industry by 2030. It also mandates interagency coordination, regulatory reform, and enhanced leadership roles to bolster American competitiveness in novel space activities while maintaining national security priorities.

• DoT
• Commerce
• Defense
• NASA

Immediate; 60; 120, 150; 180.

The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Administrator of NASA shall execute a memorandum of understanding that aligns review processes for spaceport development across agencies, eliminates those that are duplicative, and preserves required Federal space-exploration and National Security Space Launch capacity (180); the Secretary of Commerce shall propose a process for individualized mission authorizations for activities that are covered by Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, but not clearly or straightforwardly governed by existing regulatory frameworks, with the goal of expediting and streamlining authorizations to enable American space competitiveness and superiority (150).

No known legal challenges.