Anduril Industries and satellite startup Impulse Space have been selected by the Pentagon to develop space-based interceptor technology for President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense shield.
The two companies have been enlisted to develop prototypes of space-based interceptors that will track and destroy missiles from orbit, Bloomberg reported.
Impulse Space would contribute to the project as a subcontractor to Anduril on a technology that does not yet exist.
The Golden Dome is a planned missile defense system intended to detect and destroy ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles before they launch or during their flight.
Trump signed an executive order last January directing the U.S. Armed Forces to construct the Golden Dome before the end of his term. The project is expected to cost approximately $185 billion and must be operational by 2028, Trump said.
Congress has …
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