Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just put commercial space on the America First fast track. “Streamlining commercial space launches starts today,” Duffy posted. “The rules and regulations are outdated. That changes now! We have to modernize. We can’t live in a world that’s 20-30 years old.”
President Trump’s target is clear and ambitious: a thousand commercial space launches by 2030. That is not a slogan — it is a production goal that requires federal agencies to stop acting like the 1990s and start matching the speed of private innovators.
“That’s why new technology has to be deployed at USDOT to make sure we are moving at the speed of innovators,” Duffy said on CNBC Squawk. From licensing to range operations, the Department of Transportation is being told to clear the runway for American launch companies.
Under President Trump, space is not a bureaucratic museum. It is an American industry that creates jobs, strengthens national security, and keeps the United States first in orbit. Duffy’s message to the regulators is simple: modernize or get out of the way.
A thousand launches by 2030 means American rockets, American workers, and American leadership. Secretary Duffy is delivering the rulebook rewrite that makes that future real.
