Trump to announce Space Command is moving from Colorado

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's medication volition denote connected Tuesday that U.S. Space Command volition beryllium located successful Alabama, reversing a Biden-era determination to support it astatine its impermanent office successful Colorado, according to 2 radical acquainted with the announcement.

Trump is expected to talk Tuesday afternoon, and helium volition springiness the caller location, according to the people, who spoke connected the information of anonymity to corroborate the plans up of the authoritative announcement. A Pentagon website acceptable up to livestream the remarks describes the lawsuit arsenic a “U.S. Space Command HQ Announcement.”

“The president volition beryllium making an breathtaking announcement related to the Department of Defense,” White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said.

Space Command's functions see conducting operations similar enabling satellite-based navigation and unit connection and providing informing of rocket launches.

Alabama and Colorado person agelong battled to assertion Space Command due to the fact that it has important implications for the section economy. The tract besides has been a governmental prize, with elected officials from some Alabama and Colorado asserting their authorities is the amended location.

Huntsville, Alabama, nicknamed Rocket City, has agelong been location to the Army’s Redstone Arsenal and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command is besides located successful Huntsville, which drew its nickname due to the fact that of its relation successful gathering the archetypal rockets for the U.S. abstraction program.

The announcement caps a four-year back-and-forth connected the determination of Space Command.

The Air Force successful 2021 identified Army Redstone Arsenal successful Huntsville arsenic the preferred determination for the caller U.S. Space Command. The metropolis was picked aft tract visits to six states that compared factors specified arsenic infrastructure capacity, assemblage enactment and costs to the Defense Department.

Then-President Joe Biden successful 2023 announced Space Command would beryllium permanently located successful Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been serving arsenic its impermanent headquarters. Biden's Democratic medication said that keeping the bid successful Colorado Springs would debar a disruption successful readiness.

A reappraisal by the Defense Department inspector wide was inconclusive and could not find wherefore Colorado was chosen implicit Alabama. Trump, a Republican who enjoys heavy enactment successful Alabama, had agelong been expected to determination Space Command backmost to Alabama.