One concept for the Golden Dome missile defense system with space-based elements. (credit: Redwire) By Carlos Alatorre, Published by The Space Review, 8 September 2025 On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order authorizing the implementation of the Iron Dome for America, essentially a request for the Department
Illustration of Telesat Lightspeed low Earth orbit broadband satellites Credit: Telesat By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 3 September 2025 The satellite operator is positioning its Lightspeed LEO constellation as a data-transport solution for the Pentagon’s missile defense shield WASHINGTON — As the space industry watches what analysts describe
Image: Lockheed Martin. Published by Booz Allen, August 2025 Defending America from the Ultimate High Ground The threat of ballistic missile attacks will continue to increase over the next decade, making it the “most catastrophic threat to the United States,” according to President Trump’s “Golden Dome for America” Executive Order.
Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 28 August 2025 WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab’s newly acquired subsidiary Geost has secured an expansion of a U.S. Space Force contract to produce two optical payloads for missions in geostationary orbit. The
An illustration of the Golden Dome. Credit: Arcfield By Kevin Kelly, Published by Space News, 26 Augus 2025 The era of single-vector threats is behind us. That was Aerial Defense 1.0, when defenses were designed for ballistic missiles tracked by radar and defeated by linear kill webs. Threats came one
Image: Lockheed Martin. By Defence Industry Europe, Published by defence-industry.eu, 7 August 2025 Telesat Corp., Canada’s largest satellite operator, has expressed interest in contributing to the United States’ proposed Golden Dome missile defence system. The company’s chief executive, Dan Goldberg, said its Lightspeed satellite network “could make valuable contributions” to
Rendering of L3Harris' missile-tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency. Credit: L3Harris By Craig Langford, Published by UK Defence Journal, 10 August 2025 L3Harris Technologies has advanced its latest missile warning and tracking system into production following the completion of Critical Design Review and Production Readiness Review for the U.S.
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, conducted a hot fire test of a full-scale Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine combustor in fall 2023. Credit: NASA By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 8 August 2025 NASA official says agency innovations in rocket propulsion, AI, and testing infrastructure
