Colorado Springs, Colo. – The United States space command said Wednesday that it has finished the options for President Donald Trump. Antimisile Defense System “Golden Dome” And he has sent his recommendations to the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, for review and approval.
Trump ordered the futuristic system during his first week in office, and if he succeeds, he would mark the first time that the United States would place weapons in the space that they are destined to destroy land missiles within the second launch.
In his January executive order, Trump gave the military 60 days to provide recommendations on what a general system would be like.
Recent developments in Hypersonics, and in particular China’s innovative launch in 2021 of an eyelet system that is orbit before entering the atmosphere of the Earth, have caused calls for several years by the US army to develop additional ways of defending against missile attacks.
“It is time for us to clearly say that we need space fires and need weapons systems. We need orbital interceptors,” said General Stephen Whiting, head of the United States space command, in a speech starting the annual spatial symposium, an industry event held this week in Colorado. “We call these weapons, and we need to dissuade a spatial conflict and succeed if we end up in such a fight.”
Multiple options were developed, examined by the Chiefs of General Staff and provided to Hegseth, said Colonel Matthew Wroten, head of World War Requirements of the Space Command. He did not give details about how those options are.
The Defense Department said it would deliver options to Trump in line with its executive order.
Space Command has not said how much anticipates that it will cost a space defense, but Wrote said that the options sent to Hegseth incorporated estimated costs. This week, Trump said his 2026 defense budget proposal will be about $ 1 billion.
The program was previously known as Iron Dome, but was renamed by the Pentagon in February to Golden Dome.
Wroten said the space command is now moving in the development of specific requirements for Golden Dome. These requirements will be used to weigh what capacities and, what is most important for defense companies that attend the space conference, what commercially available technologies the military will seek to obtain an initial system in a few years.
The administration has said that Golden Dome will incorporate existing antimile defense systems and new space -based capacities to form a multicapa defense.
In the 1980s, president Ronald Reagan He proposed a similar defense, but the strategic defense initiative, also known as “Star Wars”, ultimately did not come to fruition due to technology and cost challenges.
