SpaceX awarded $4.16 billion U.S. Space Force contract for threat-detection satellite program
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Summary
The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract for the Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) program, a satellite system designed to detect, track, and target airborne threats. The program is an interconnected system-of-systems combining space-based sensors, secure communications, and ground processing to enhance government space industrial base cooperation. The satellites would serve as a sensing and tracking layer within the Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defense system.
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The Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) is designed as an interconnected system-of-systems, combining space-based sensors, secure communications links and ground processing to drive closer cooperation across the government space industrial base.
The Trump administration's flagship Golden Dome missile defense system has many layers, one of them being a sensing and tracking layer.
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