SpaceX expands launch capabilities with fifth U.S. site acquisition.

SpaceX has been granted approval to lease a second rocket launch complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, giving the company its fifth launch site in the US. The new launch site, Space Launch Complex-6, was vacated by United Launch Alliance last year and will allow SpaceX to handle an increasingly busy launch schedule for commercial, government and internal satellite launches. The base allows for launches in a southern trajectory over the Pacific ocean, which is often used for weather-monitoring, military or spy satellites that commonly rely on polar Earth orbits.