Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks about the Golden Dome initiative in the Oval Office on May 20, 2025. | Alex Brandon/AP By Audrey Decker, Published by Politico, 14 January 2026 Much of the president’s signature defense shield isn’t even supposed to be based on land. President Donald Trump has linked
Photo: German Ministry of Defence. By Ivan Khomenko, Published by United24 Media, 12 January 2026 Germany’s newly deployed Arrow-3 missile defense system is currently unable to intercept Russia’s latest intermediate-range ballistic missile, known as “Oreshnik,” due to its limited operational readiness and the extreme speed of the target, Die Welt reported on January 11, citing NATO
An illustration of the Golden Dome. Credit: Arcfield By Ingolf Kiesaw, Published by Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademien, 22 December 2025 SIPRI's 2024 yearbook is titled “Role of nuclear weapons grows as geopolitical relations deteriorate.” The content of that statement has grown in importance in 2025. Golden Dome On January 27, 2025, just
By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 10 December 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector. Each company
An artist's rendering of the Timely Warning and Interception with Space-based TheatER surveillance project. Image: MBDA By Inder Singh Bisht, Published by The Defense Post, 28 October 2025 France and Germany have signed an agreement to jointly develop a European missile early warning system, combining space- and ground-based sensors to
Illustration of the German Earth observation satellite TerraSAR-X Credit: ESA By Tereza Pultarova, Published by Space News, 21 October 2025 LONDON — The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is looking to purchase satellites capable of jamming other spacecraft and inspecting objects in space, and it wants to do so on tight
Artist's concept of On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) spacecraft docking with a satellite. Credit: NASA By Bogdan Gogulan, CEO and Managing Partner at NewSpace Capital Published by Space News, 17 October 2025 It isn’t surprising that more and more space companies are pivoting to defense. Defense budgets are
Golden Dome Rardar.Image: Defence Blog By Dylan Malyasov, Published by Defense Blog, 4 October 2025 Northrop Grumman is advancing U.S. homeland defense with its new “Golden Dome for America,” built around the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) — a mobile, ground-based sensor designed to detect, track, and respond to
