2025年4月15日，在第41届空间研讨会期间的签署仪式上，All Points首席执行官菲尔·蒙克雷斯（Phil Monkress）与肯尼迪航天中心主任珍妮特·佩特罗（Janet Petro）。图片来源：All Points。
科罗拉多斯普林斯——All Points物流公司已与美国国家航空航天局（NASA）肯尼迪航天中心签署协议，在中心场地上建设卫星处理设施。
在4月15日举行的第41届空间研讨会仪式上，All Points和肯尼迪航天中心（KSC）的官员签署了一份强化用途租赁协议，租赁位于KSC内、标志性的垂直总装大楼（VAB）以南约1.5公里处的64英亩土地。
All Points计划在该地块上建造两座设施。一座是占地26.6万平方英尺的航天港物流中心，该中心将拥有用于集成中小型航天器的洁净室，以及存储空间、临时办公室和任务操作区。另一座是占地27.5万平方英尺的航天器处理中心，用于航天器处理，包括燃料加注和封装进运载火箭整流罩。
该公告发布之际，有效载荷处理设施正成为发射活动的关键瓶颈。政府和商业发射客户均表示，对有效载荷处理服务的需求正超出肯尼迪航天中心和卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地等航天港现有设施的能力。
在前 NASA 局长、All Points顾问吉姆·布里登斯廷（Jim Bridenstine）在签署仪式上说：“美利坚合众国必须以从未有过的规模进入太空，而最大的瓶颈之一就是有效载荷处理。”
他说：“我知道肯尼迪航天中心负责人珍妮特·佩特罗长期以来一直像激光一样聚焦于此，试图找到合适的合作伙伴，建造合适的设施，以实现最终目标，将比以往更多的东西送入太空。”
佩特罗在仪式上表示：“这是我一直从各类客户那里听到的主要反馈之一：你们需要更多的有效载荷处理设施。”
Phil Monkress, chief executive of All Points, and Janet Petro, director of the Kennedy Space Center, at an April 15 signing ceremony during the 41st Space Symposium. Credit: All Points
COLORADO SPRINGS — All Points Logistics has signed an agreement with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to construct satellite processing facilities on center property.
At a ceremony during the 41st Space Symposium April 15, officials with All Points and KSC signed an enhanced use lease agreement for 64 acres of land at KSC about a kilometer and a half south of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building.
All Points plans to construct two facilities on the property. One is a spaceport logistics center covering 266,000 square feet that will have clean rooms for integrating small- and medium-sized spacecraft as well as storage space, temporary offices and mission operations areas. The other is a spacecraft processing center spanning 275,000 square feet for spacecraft processing, including fueling and encapsulation into launch vehicle payload fairings.
The announcement comes as payload processing facilities emerge as a critical bottleneck for launch activities. Both government and commercial launch customers say demand for payload processing services is outstripping the capacity of existing facilities at spaceports such as KSC and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
“The United States of America has to get access to space in volumes that we’ve never seen before, and one of the big bottlenecks is payload processing,” said former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, an adviser to All Points, at the signing ceremony.
“I know Janet Petro, the head of Kennedy, has been focused on this like a laser for a long period of time, trying to find the right partners that can build the right things to achieve the right end states, get more stuff into space than ever before,” he said.
“It’s one of the main things I kept hearing from all kinds of customers: You need more payload processing facilities,” Petro said at the event.
“This agreement is a major step in positioning All Points as a leading global provider of launch support services through our Space Prep line of business,” said Phil Monkress, chief executive of All Points. “We value NASA’s partnership and look forward to beginning construction this year.”
All Points said it expects the spaceport logistics center to open by the end of 2027 but did not disclose when the separate spacecraft processing center will open.
Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews.
He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...
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