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The U.S. Space Force is studying the possibility of merging management of dozens of launch sites in Florida and California under a new national spaceport authority to keep pace with the growing commercial space industry.
Reorganizing launch site management would help NASA, the military and private space companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX launch more frequently and with less bureaucratic delay.

Creating such a management organization would aid the growth of a space economy, which many banks believe will exceed $1 trillion globally by 2040, according to a study prepared for the Space Force by California-based The Aerospace Corporation, a think tank.

No proposed timeline for such a transition has been determined.

"We are very early in the process, but believe now is the time to start having these discussions so we can focus our future development," Space Force Maj. Nicholas Mercurio, public affairs adviser to chief of space operations Gen. Jay Raymond, said.

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