可称之为新的“阿波罗时刻”：佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角的火箭发射次数如今已超越了冷战时期太空竞赛时的水平，而正是那场竞赛最初让该发射场声名大噪。
Call it a new Apollo moment: Rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, are now outpacing those of the Cold War-era space race that first made the launch site famous.
为何重要：美国领导人正急于增加美国最繁忙航天港的火箭发射服务商数量，以应对与中国在太空和军备领域的竞争。
Why it matters: U.S. leaders are rushing to grow the number of rocket providers at America's busiest spaceport amid a space and arms race with China.
- 北京计划在2030年或更早将宇航员送上月球，并正在迅速扩充其卫星和火箭舰队。
• Beijing plans to send a crew to the Moon by 2030 or sooner and is rapidly building up its satellite and rocket fleets.
他们怎么说：“在我的职业生涯背景中，没有什么真正能与我们今天所经历的相比，”佛罗里达州火箭发射场指挥官、太空军上校布莱恩·查特曼在接受Axios独家采访时表示。
What they're saying: "There's nothing really comparable in the background of my career to what we're experiencing today," Space Force Col. Brian Chatman, the commander of Florida's rocket range, told Axios in an exclusive interview.
幕后情况：为满足特朗普总统要求国家到2030年支持每年1000次发射的指令，卡纳维拉尔角正在忙着扩建。查特曼表示，基地内承包商众多，导致检查积压和停车混乱现象丛生。
Behind the scenes: The Cape is busy expanding to meet President Trump's mandate for the nation to support 1,000 annual launches by 2030. Chatman said with all the contractors on base, inspection backups and parking chaos abound.
查特曼正在监管的
A rundown of some
部分重大项目
major projects
- SpaceX正在卡纳维拉尔角扩大其占地面积，用于建设“星舰”超重型运载火箭发射台。
Chatman is overseeing: • SpaceX is expanding its footprint on the Cape for its Starship super heavy-lift launchpads.
- 新进入者Relativity Space和Stoke Space正在建设其设施，目标是在2026年底和2027年为军方和商业客户发射火箭。
• Newcomers Relativity Space and Stoke Space are setting up their facilities and are aiming to launch rockets for military and commercial customers sometime in late 2026 and 2027.
- 美国国家航空航天局（NASA）正在为明年的“阿耳忒弥斯3号”测试任务以及计划于2028年将宇航员送回月球的“阿耳忒弥斯4号”任务做准备。
• NASA is preparing for next year's Artemis III testing missions, and the Artemis IV voyage that aims to return astronauts to the Moon by 2028.
- 蓝色起源正在其“新格伦”火箭于5月爆炸后，迅速重建其发射场。
• Blue Origin is rapidly rebuilding its launch complex after its New Glenn rocket exploded in May.
卡纳维拉尔角太空军博物馆馆长杰米·德雷珀告诉Axios，该基地历史上经历过多次“繁荣与萧条”周期。
Jamie Draper, the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum's director, told Axios there's been "boom and bust" cycles throughout the base's history.
- “我们肯定正处于繁荣周期之中，”德雷珀说。
• "We're definitely in one of those boom cycles right now," Draper said.
数据说明：去年，负责监管卡纳维拉尔角的军事指挥机构“太空发射三角洲45”支持了从该基地实施的109次轨道发射——创下该基地历史新高。
By the numbers: Last year, Space Launch Delta 45, the military command overseeing the Cape, supported 109 orbital liftoffs from the base — the most in its history.
- 2024年4月，太空发射三角洲45指挥部监管了五次不同任务的火箭发射，打破了上世纪60年代美苏太空竞赛高峰期创下的纪录。
• In April, Space Launch Delta 45 oversaw five different rocket launches for unique missions, breaking a record set at the height of the U.S.-Soviet space race in the 1960s.
- 太空部官员估计，根据该部的愿景计划，卡纳维拉尔角的年度发射次数可能从2025年的109次上升至“约1200次（截至）2036年”。
• Space Force officials estimate that the number of Cape launches could rise from the 109 it reached in 2025 to "approximately 1,200 by 2036" annually, according to the service's vision plan. Reality check:
现实检视：美国只有另一个军用太空港——加利福尼亚的范登堡太空部队基地——而这两座基地无法完全满足预计的商业和军用需求激增。最高军事领导人强调需要第三座美国太空港。
There's only one other military spaceport in the U.S. — California's Vandenberg Space Force Base— and the two can't fully handle the anticipated surge in commercial and military demand. Top military leaders stress the need for a third U.S. port.
- 空天系统司令部司令菲利普·加兰特中将上周对记者表示，预计到2030年可能需要另一座太空港。
• Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, the head of Space Systems Command, told reporters last week that another spaceport was likely needed by 2030.
进入SpaceX：这家新近上市、由埃隆·马斯克控制的公司计划于明年在路易斯安那州海岸外开始建设另一座场址，首枚星舰计划于2029年发射。
Enter SpaceX: The newly public Elon Musk-controlled company plans to start building another site off the Louisiana coast next year, with its first Starship launch planned for 2029.
- 该场址被称为“星际基地”，航空航天公司空间政策与战略中心民用与商业政策主任布赖恩·韦登表示，它将“显著缓解卡纳维拉尔角的压力”。
• That site, known as Starbase, would "relieve quite a lot of the pressure" on Cape Canaveral, said Brian Weeden, director of civil and commercial policy for the Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy. The bottom line:
结论：在新太空港建成之前，卡纳维拉尔角仍将是全国火箭业务的核心枢纽。
Until new spaceports arrive, Cape Canaveral will remain the linchpin of the nation's rocket enterprise.
- “我们这里拥有一块极佳的房地产，能够最大化发射机会，”查特曼说。“但现实是，未来的发射需求如此之大，我们确实需要更多的场址。”
• "We have a prime piece of real estate here that maximizes launch opportunities," Chatman said. "But the reality is, there's so much demand for launch in the future that we just need more sites."