Lead item · 27 August 2026

POSITIONINGLaunch bottleneck / launch economics

White House targets 1,000 launches a year by 2030

A federal push to sextuple US launch cadence could ease — or further entrench SpaceX's grip on — the bottleneck gating SES's launch manifest.

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