Executive Order 14335 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry
Signed: 2025-08-13 Published: 2025-08-19 Federal Register document: 2025-15822
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14335 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 158 (Tuesday, August 19, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 19, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 40219-40221] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-15822] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 158 / Tuesday, August 19, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 40219]] Executive Order 14335 of August 13, 2025 Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. In 1969, the United States landed the first humans on the Moon. In the years since, premier space companies from around the world have been drawn to launch rockets and satellites from the United States, incentivized by its infrastructure and support for commercial space activities. Americans are more prosperous because of the space research and development occurring here. It is imperative that we build on the far-reaching actions taken by my Administration during my first term to ensure that new space-based industries, space exploration capabilities, and cutting-edge defense systems are pioneered in America rather than by our adversaries....
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Graded 2026-10-08
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SI review finds Executive Order 14335 is a deregulatory executive supervision measure that uses existing statutory authority to expedite commercial space licensing and spaceport review, with no rights infringement, no new federal power claim, and no due process or takings issue.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
President acts under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that laws be executed, directing subordinate officers to use existing statutory authorities. Federal regulation of launch, reentry, airspace, space commerce, and treaty compliance rests on Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Commerce Clause for interstate and foreign commerce, Article I, Se… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision restricts speech, religion, press, assembly, petition under First Amendment, arms under Second Amendment, quartering under Third Amendment, searches or seizures under Fourth Amendment, self-incrimination or trial rights under Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Amendments, or unenumerated rights under Ninth Amendment. The order directs agencies to expedite licensing, environmental review, a… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The order reduces restrictions on private persons and companies seeking to use their labor, capital, property, and engineering judgment to launch, operate, and build space infrastructure. It directs elimination, waiver, or expedition of license, permit, and environmental obstacles and requires clear timelines and consistent applicant requirements. No restriction on personal belief, speech, bodily … -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Orbital launch, reentry, airspace integration, outer-space treaty supervision, and national security space capacity cannot be handled by individuals, families, local communities, or single states acting alone because of interstate effects, foreign treaty obligations, and shared national airspace. Direction to align federal reviews and reduce duplication does not consolidate new decision-making upw… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property without notice and hearing under Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, no presumption of innocence is altered, and no property is taken for public use without just compensation under Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. The order grants no seizure, forfeiture, fine, or physical appropriation authority and imposes no penalty; Section 4(a) evaluation of C…
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