SpaceX, Anduril Among Companies to Win Golden Dome Contracts
A SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket booster outside the company's facilities in Hawthorne, California.
Photographer: Ethan Swope/BloombergThe US Space Force awarded 12 companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp. and SpaceX, contracts worth up to $3.2 billion to develop prototypes for space-based interceptors under President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome plan.
The companies will be tasked with demonstrating a capability for space-based interceptors by 2028, Space Force said in a press release. The interceptors, which are designed to destroy enemy missiles outside the Earth’s atmosphere, are a key but unproven component of Golden Dome.