Overview

• The order directs DOT and FAA to eliminate or speed up environmental reviews for launch and reentry licenses and to reevaluate FAA Part 450 regulations within 120 days.
• It tasks the Commerce Department with proposing a process for individualized mission authorizations for novel space activities within 150 days.
• Agencies including Commerce, Defense, Transportation and NASA have 180 days to evaluate state compliance under the Coastal Zone Management Act and streamline spaceport development reviews.
• Within 60 days DOT must create a senior advisor on innovation and a noncareer associate administrator for FAA commercial-space transportation, and Commerce must elevate its Office of Space Commerce.
• Major operators like SpaceX stand to benefit from accelerated approvals, while environmental groups warn the changes could weaken NEPA safeguards and invite legal challenges.