Anduril today revealed its team of partners working on a contract for the Golden Dome SBI program.
Without further ado: The company is working with:
- Impulse Space
- Inversion Space
- K2 Space
- Sandia National Labs
- Voyager Technologies
“Anduril’s SBI team brings proven capabilities, leading technical expertise, and a commitment to moving quickly to solve one of the most critical, most complex problem sets facing the American homeland today,” Gokul Subramanian, Anduril SVP of engineering, said in a statement. “From commercial space startups to established research institutions, the Department of War’s SBI program has established a clear demand signal that has energized the entire space industrial base.”
Why it matters: Impulse’s partnership with Andruril had been previously reported by Bloomberg—attributed to people familiar with the matter. The press release from Anduril will allow the other companies to acknowledge their participation in the program—and marks one of only a couple public statements on a program that has so-far largely operated in the shadows.
The rest: Anduril is one of 12 primes working on the SBI aspect of the Golden Dome missile defense architecture. The Pentagon announced the others—a mix of traditional partners and newer entrants—last week.
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Under the agreement, announced today, the Luxembourg-based company will develop an architecture and use-case road-map for orbital data centers. The company will:
“The first goal of ESA—and also our goal—is to find out in a structured, very analytical way if [orbital data centers] make sense, and if so, in what way it could be useful and how it could be commercial,” Edge CEO Jarosław Jaworski told Payload. “Europe was very often late with reusable launchers or telecom constellations, [so] one of our goals is that when it comes to orbital data centers, Europe will also be moving fast.”
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