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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Donald Trump pushes commercial space boom with 1,000-launch annual goal

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memo to help drastically increase ​the number of U.S. commercial space launches, ​including directing government agencies to look at federal land for new launch and ​re-entry sites.

The White House wants to enable at least 1,000 launches and re-entries annually by 2030, up from 178 launches last year - a figure that is already 10 times higher than in 2013 and dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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