# Blue Origin Secures Lease for West Coast Launch Pad at Vandenberg

- slug: blue-origin-secures-lease-for-west-coast-launch-pad-at-vandenberg
- date: 2026-04-16
- category: Space & Aerospace

Blue Origin won the right to compete for $5.6 billion in national security launches. The Space Force just gave it a lease for a patch of California desert — where nothing has been built yet. The pad alone will take two years.

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