Anduril Industries has named a team of collaborators for its recent award to prototype technologies for space-based interceptors, and will work with Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National Labs, and Voyager Technologies on the contract.
Anduril announced the team of collaborators on Tuesday. Anduril was recently named as one of the companies that received an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract from the U.S. Space Force Space’s Systems Command to prototype technologies for space-based interceptors in support of the Golden Dome initiative.
“By bringing Anduril’s proven expertise across a range of owned capabilities and combining it with proven, best-of-breed capabilities from across the commercial space industrial base, we will deliver affordable, scalable solutions to counter the rapidly-evolving missile threat,” Gokul Subramanian, senior vice president of of Engineering for Anduril Industries, said in a statement.
Anduril did not specify what each partner will bring to the work.
Impulse Space, which builds in-space mobility vehicles, has collaborated with Anduril in the past, to integrate Anduril payloads onto a Mira spacecraft, and partnering to conduct a high-precision rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) mission in geosynchronous orbit (GEO).
Inversion Space builds reentry vehicles for defense capabilities. “Space offers access to the globe at unprecedented speeds. Advanced reentry lets that become physical, and will play a critical role in SBI,” Justin Fiaschetti said of the collaboration with Anduril in a statement.
K2 Space said in a statement the company will provide its Mega-class satellites to host space-based interceptors. The Mega-class platform is designed for up to 3,000 kg of payload mass, and to provide 30 kw of peak payload power.
Sandia National Labs Senior Hypersonics Manager Scott McEntire said in a statement that the lab will “bring our decades of experience in advanced weapons development to bear,” in the work with Anduril.
Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor spoke about the award on the company’s Tuesday morning investor call, saying it’s a “very significant award,” although Voyager has to be vague about what role it is playing.
“We’re extremely pleased with how central our technology is to the architectures being put forward on Golden Dome and space-based interceptors in particular,” Taylor said. “We had anticipated that our technology would be relevant for Golden Dome. Frankly, I’m quite surprised at how quickly that technology is gaining traction within this architecture, and we’re extremely bullish on what we see there.”
Voyager has noted that many of its capabilities could be used in a Golden Dome architecture, including energetics and propulsion, digital avionics and communications technologies.
