SpaceX: Launch Sites Need to Function Like Airports

In the future, space launch sites have to function like airports, with "multiple launches a day from multiple providers," SpaceX blogged this week. It said it wants to work with federal regulators, federal launch ranges and the industry "to realize this vision." The company would make "significant investments in scientific research on blast and acoustics, physical infrastructure, and operational techniques and modern tools that foster dynamic, safe, and high-cadence spaceports in the U.S." SpaceX said its work with the FAA, NASA and Space Force have let it launch and land every two days on average from Cape Canaveral Space Force Center, "a cadence once dismissed as making it impossible for other launch providers to use the same range." Its Falcon family of rockets is on track to launch more than 100 times from Florida this year, "while other launch operators have continued their normal operations."