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Jun 28, 2026
NASA’s Shrinkage and Your Business, and a Coming Crunch at the Nation’s Spaceports
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6:53Tom PattonHOST
Colvin acknowledged that traditional launch sites like Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg are already straining under congestion, infrastructure coordination failures, and regulatory friction.

Tom ColvinGUEST
And so right now, you know, operators are experiencing friction at the current launch cadence.

Tom ColvinGUEST
And nobody knows really what's the capacity of even our existing infrastructure or when we'll hit that capacity limit, what's the biggest bang for the buck to fix it.

Tom ColvinGUEST
And so we were taking a first sort of stab at making a much more rigorous, physically grounded and traceable analysis that people who are trying to plan for future infrastructure can use.

Tom ColvinGUEST
You want it to be right-sized to, you know, the amount of demand or services that you're going to have to provide.