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title: The Space Force Is Paying $250 Million for a Launch Facility It Will Not Own
description: All Points Logistics takes a $250 million award to build and keep a spacecraft processing center at Vandenberg, the third and largest under the program.
author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
updated: 2026-07-30T01:25:59.913Z
canonical: https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/space-force-250m-vandenberg-processing-center
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region: United States
publication: Sovereign Magazine
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Vandenberg Space Force Base handles most of what the United States puts into polar orbit, including reconnaissance and other national security missions. The rockets are not the problem there. The buildings are.

Before a satellite reaches a pad it has to be processed: unpacked, integrated, fuelled, sealed into its fairing. That work needs clean rooms, high bays, hazardous fuelling areas, secure mission spaces and equipment built for handling spacecraft that cannot be replaced. There are only so many of those rooms, and when they are full a mission waits, however ready the rocket and the launch pad are.

The Space Force has decided to fix that by renting rather than building. On July 29 it awarded All Points Logistics $250 million to design and construct a Spacecraft Processing Center at Vandenberg that All Points will own and operate itself, with the capacity due to be available by 2029. The facility goes in the base's Mission Development Zone and adds to the company's existing operation at Space Launch Complex 2.

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