When President Donald Trump announced his plans for a “Golden Dome” over the US, the most eye-catching part of the announcement was a pledge of space-based interceptors — systems that would live on-orbit and deploy defenses to take out a missile launched from an enemy nation.
Breaking Defense’s Aaron Mehta sat down with Tom Karako, a missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and John Plumb, a former top DoD space official now with K2 Space, to discuss whether this technology is actually feasible, and if so, what it might look like.