President Trump Announces Space Command HQ Will Move From Colorado to Alabama

President Trump announced the headquarters for the Space Force, also known as Space Command, will be relocated to Huntsville, Alabama. The Biden Administration had changed the original awarding of the base from Huntsville to Colorado, but the Trump administration reverted that decision back to Alabama. Trump was joined by the Alabama Congressional delegation and took questions from reporters. He addressed a multitude of topics, including sending National Guard troops to Chicago and appealing a recent court decision on his tariffs to the Supreme Court

Trump Moves U.S. Space Command HQ to Alabama

Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command will be permanently located in Huntsville, Alabama, overturning President Biden’s decision to keep it in Colorado Springs. The move ends a years-long battle between the two states, with Huntsville set to gain about 1,400 jobs and solidify its role as a hub for U.S. space and defense operations.

Trump to move Space Command headquarters to Alabama from Colorado

– U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will relocate the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, noting the southern state’s strong support for him while criticizing Colorado’s voting practices.
The move, first reported by Reuters, benefits a state that overwhelmingly supported Trump’s three Republican presidential bids, at the expense of one that opposed them.

“We love Alabama. I only won it by about 47 points. I don’t think that influenced my decision, though,” Trump told reporters and lawmakers gathered in the Oval Office.

The decision reverses a move made under former President Joe Biden’s administration, which had selected Colorado Springs as the permanent home for the military’s newest combatant command.
Defense officials have previously estimated that relocating the headquarters, which became fully operational in December 2023, could cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take three to four years to complete.
The Space Command, established in 2019 under the first Trump administration, is responsible for military operations beyond Earth’s atmosphere and defending U.S. satellites from potential threats. About 1,700 personnel work at Space Command, according to congressional records.

Trump has often linked federal funding decisions and politics. The president previously blocked a move to put the FBI’s headquarters in Maryland, calling it a “liberal state,” and suggested linking disaster aid in California to the state’s policy decisions.

“The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting. They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections,” Trump said. Citizens can vote in person or by mail in Colorado.

All of Colorado’s congressional leaders said in a joint statement, “Moving Space Command sets our space defense apparatus back years, wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, and hands the advantage to the converging threats of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.” Four of Colorado’s representatives are Republicans.

Huntsville, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and a major hub for defense contractors, such as L3Harris (LHX.N), opens new tab and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), opens new tab, has long lobbied for the Space Command headquarters.

POLITICAL WEAPON

Military basing decisions have long been wielded as political weapons in Washington, with lawmakers treating defense installations and equipment purchases as bargaining chips.

In 2021, a week before the end of Trump’s first term, the Air Force announced Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, as the preferred location for Space Command’s permanent headquarters, pending an environmental assessment. But while the Air Force completed the assessment in 2022, it did not make a final decision regarding Space Command’s headquarters.

The Government Accountability Office, Congress’ nonpartisan research arm, released a report in 2022 saying it had identified “significant shortfalls” in the Air Force’s selection process for the Space Command headquarters.

Trump announces that Space Command is moving to Alabama from Colorado Springs, saying Colorado's use of mail-in voting was "big factor" - The Colorado Sun

An April 2025 report by the Pentagon’s inspector general “acknowledged risks to readiness inherent to moving the HQ from its provisional location” to Huntsville but said it was balanced by an estimated $426 million cost advantage Huntsville has due to lower personnel and construction costs.

Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington, additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Joey Roulette; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Paul Simao, Rod Nickel

China’s parade of new weaponry sends message of deterrence.

SINGAPORE, Sept 3 (Reuters) – From an upgraded, nuclear-armed missile with near-global reach, to air defence lasers, hypersonic weapons, and sea drones that could crowd its near seas, China sent a broad message of deterrence with its largest ever military parade on Wednesday.
Military analysts and diplomats saw China’s leader Xi Jinping using the event to signal a diverse group, from the United States and its allies, to neighbours and regional powers India and Russia, as well as potential buyers of technology.

“For all the operational questions that surround some of these new elements, China was sending a message of technological advance and military strength on all fronts – there is a indeed a lot for rival defence planners to get their heads around,” said Singapore-based security analyst Alexander Neill.
For the first time, China displayed its full nuclear triad of weapons that can be deployed from land, sea and air, including a re-tooled intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-5C, with a range of 20,000 km (12,400 miles), and a new road-mobile long-range missile, the DF-61.
Beyond the strategic level, China’s military was also showing it was determined to dominate its near seas as well.

The comprehensive range of new weapons could complicate the plans of the United States and its allies in any conflict in East Asia, said James Char, a China defence scholar at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

“The combination of the (sea) … drones they have and also the missiles, it will create an area that external navies couldn’t even enter to intervene,” Char said.

More broadly, Char and other analysts said, China was possibly also keen to show smaller nations that it now stood as a “guarantor of peace” amid doubts about the U.S. political, diplomatic and military role worldwide.

Military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing

Specifically, the new torpedo-shaped drones and array of hypersonic triad weapons would be a serious threat for the United States and its partners.

That is even more so when they are combined with China’s growing number of DF-26 medium-range ballistic missiles carrying controllable warheads that could target ships and bases such as Guam.

Analysts have long said China would have to effectively secure control of the South and East China seas in any conflict over Taiwan to ensure success, which is no easy task, given the traditional dominance of the United States across East Asia.

Beyond the neat demonstration of precision and discipline on display at the parade, question-marks remained about the full capabilities and ranges of the new weapons.

While China showed off new weapons it said were operational, it is another matter whether that is the case, said military expert Chieh Chung, a researcher at the Taipei-based Association of Strategic Foresight.

“Some weapons may still be in limited deployment to units, undergoing ‘field testing during deployment,’ and may not yet be fully standardised or ready for mass production,” he said.

Char, Neill and other analysts pointed to the high degree of technology on show, particularly in an apparent desire to meld together various systems with air defences, battle management systems and drones.

A new main battle tank, the Type-100, was unveiled, for instance, bristling with new systems, including air defences and reconnaissance drones.

Newly formed aerospace, cyberspace and information support units were also on show, demonstrating a willingness to compete in advanced space and electronic warfare realms.

The last military parade in China was held in 2009 to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

“Western militaries may still have an operational edge, but there is no doubt China is wanting to show it is rapidly catching up,” said Neill, adding that the United States is generally more cautious about detailing weapons being developed.

“I do wonder if there is an element here of China being eager to sell this technology to other militaries … there was after all a little gimmickry here too,” he added, pointing to a dog-like robot in the lineup.

Reporting by Greg Torode in Singapore, Additional reporting by Yimou Lee in Taipei and Beijing newsroom; Editing by Lincoln Feast and Clarence Fernandez

Trump says he’s moving Space Command HQ to Alabama because of Colorado’s mail-in voting system

The president is reversing the Biden administration’s decision to put the headquarters in Colorado Springs.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that U.S. Space Command’s headquarters will move to Alabama from Colorado, reversing a Biden administration decision.

In remarks at the White House, Trump said he was making the shift in part because of Colorado’s use of mail-in voting.

“The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting, they went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

Colorado allows for in-person elections, but every voter automatically receives a ballot in the mail. According to Colorado’s secretary of state, about 92% of the ballots cast in last November’s election were a mail ballot, with about 8% voting in person.

Trump said last month that he wanted to ban mail-in voting nationwide, an announcement that has already been met with pushback from some Republicans.

“We can’t have that when a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections, because that’s what that means. So that played a big factor also,” Trump said while flanked by the Alabama lawmakers who lobbied for Space Command’s move to their state.

Trump lost Colorado, a state with two Democratic senators, in the last three presidential elections. Alabama, meanwhile, is a deep red state that has consistently voted Republican in presidential elections.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and several Alabama Republicans at the White House event noted that it was President Joe Biden who changed Space Command’s headquarters to Colorado from what was supposed to be Alabama.

Hegseth said that Trump was restoring its headquarters to “precisely where it should be, based on what the Space Force, the Air Force, your leadership,” which he said will “give us strategic advantage in the future.”

“That is Huntsville, Alabama,” the defense secretary continued. “We are way ahead in space, but this will ensure we stay leaps and bounds ahead, because that’s the most important domain. Whoever controls the skies will control the future warfare. And Mr. President, today you’re ensuring that happens.”

President Donald Trump applauds as the flag for the new the U.S. Space Command is revealed — President Donald Trump as the flag for the new U.S. Space Command is revealed in the Rose Garden in 2019.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images file

The Colorado congressional delegation, comprised of both Republicans and Democrats, said in a joint statement that Trump’s decision would harm the state and the nation.

“Moving Space Command sets our space defense apparatus back years, wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, and hands the advantage to the converging threats of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea,” the statement read.

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