SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’ satellites

The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 cardinal declaration to physique missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald Trump's planned "Golden Dome" defence system, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In an announcement connected Friday, the US Space Force says the sensor-equipped satellites volition let it to observe and way targets from space.

The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX - which precocious filed for what could beryllium the biggest archetypal nationalist offering ever - already has contracts with the Space Force to make different parts of the Golden Dome. Similar to Israel's Iron Dome, Trump's pricey defence system would place and instrumentality down missiles and different airb …

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