SpaceNews will host a 25 June discussion on how sensors could protect the United States under the Golden Dome missile-defense concept. The focus is the sensing layer: satellite tracking, threat discrimination, and the communications backbone needed to push data fast enough for intercept decisions.
The event matters because Golden Dome is being framed as a layered architecture, not a single shield. Space-based sensors would work with ground radars, command networks, and interceptors to detect ballistic and hypersonic threats across boost, midcourse, and terminal phases. That puts orbital sensing, processing latency, and resilient data links at the center of the procurement debate.
For suppliers, the signal is clear: the competition is moving from concept to architecture definition.