Barclays Sees Muni ‘Space Bonds’ Becoming $25 Billion Market

Space authorities in Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and California are potential future issuers of the debt, the Barclays strategists wrote in the report.Photographer: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

Barclays Plc says the municipal-bond market is poised for new debt sales for space facilities after the enactment of the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The legislation included a provision that would let spaceports sell tax-exempt bonds, known as private-activity bonds, similar to airports. In a report late last week, Barclays strategists led by Mikhail Foux said that there is no limit to issuance of spaceport bonds, unlike other types of private-activity bonds.