U.S. Space Force has awarded multiple small contracts to companies to help develop prototypes for a crucial but unproven technology that will be used in President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” defense system, according to a report.
The contracts, each under $9 million, are to develop space-based interceptors – a weapons system that would rely on a series of low-orbiting satellites that could track down an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile and intercept it before it strikes.
