Satellite bus designer and manufacturer Apex next summer plans to demonstrate commercially-developed space-based interceptor (SBI) technology to reduce risk for a key component of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome homeland missile defense vision. Project Shadow will demonstrate two solid rocket motor (SRM)-powered interceptors from Apex’s Orbital Magazine host spacecraft, which is to use the company’s Nova bus in a launch next June. Firings of the demonstrator interceptors, integrated with Orbital Magazine, are also planned for next summer. Apex and its…
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