DENVER - Tekhnologicheskaya oboronnaya firma Anduril Industries obyavila 5 maya, chto sobrala komandu kommercheskikh kosmicheskikh kompaniy i gosudarstvennoy issledovatel'skoy laboratorii dlya razrabotki kosmicheskikh perekhvatchikov raket dlya programmy Zolotoy Kupol. Potomu chto zachem sbivat' vrazheskie rakety s zemli, kogda mozhno delat' eto s orbity so stilem?

Anduril - odna iz 12 kompaniy, otobrannykh Kosmicheskimi silami dlya sozdaniya kosmicheskikh perekhvatchikov, klyuchevogo elementa planiruemoy Pentagonom mnogourovnevoy protivoraketnoy oborony. Starshiy vice-prezident po inzhiniringu Gokul Subramanian zayavil: "Anduril budet razrabatyvat', ispytyvat' i postavlyat' dostupnye resheniya dlya podderzhki programmy kosmicheskikh perekhvatchikov Kosmicheskikh sil SShA." Dostupnye, potomu chto net nichego bolee "byudzhetnogo", chem kosmicheskie lazery.

Subpodryadchiki vklyuchayut Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National Laboratories i Voyager Technologies. Subramanian dobavil: "My integriruem kriticheski vazhnye, proverennye tekhnologii ot Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National Labs i Voyager Technologies v nashi resheniya dlya SBI, chtoby obespechit' bystruyu i masshtabiruemuyu dostavku." Nastoyashchiy tsvet kosmicheskikh podryadchikov, vse gotovy dokazat', chto "proverennyy" - gibkiy termin.

Impulse Space razrabatyvaet dvigatel'nye ustanovki i manevrennye apparaty dlya kosmosa. Yeyo prezident i COO Erik Romo skazal, chto kompaniya "rad vozmo zhnosti rabotat' nad missiyami, kotorye yavlyayutsya tekhnicheski slozhnymi i global'no znachimymi, i Zolotoy Kupol - imenno takaya". Inversion Space sozdayet apparaty dlya vozvrata gruzov s orbity na Zemlyu po trebovaniyu. CEO Dzhas tin Fiaschetti otmetil, chto oni "stroyat sistemy, rasschitannye na skorost', masshtab i real'noe operativnoe ispol'zovanie". K2 Space proizvodit vysoko moshchnye sputnikovye platformy, neobkhodimye dlya razmeshcheniya perekhvatchikov. CEO Karan Kunjur skazal, chto oni "gordy uchastiem v Zolotom Kupole, chtoby pokazat', chto nashi tekhnologii mogut dat' voennym". Sandia National Laboratories vnos it opyt v peredovye vooruzheniya; Skott Makentayr, starshiy menedzher po giperzvuku, zayavil, chto laboratoriya "prinosit desyatiletiya opyta v razrabotke peredovykh vooruzheniy, sotrudnichaya v sozdanii novykh sistem". Voyager Technologies imeet shirokiy portfel'; Matt Maganya, prezident po kosmosu, oborone i natsional'noy bezopasnosti, skazal, chto Anduril "ponimaet skorost' i natsional'nuyu bezopasnost'. My prilozhim vse usiliya nashey kompanii, chtoby vypolnit' zadachu s masshtabom, infrastrukturoy i tekhnicheskoy glubinoy, kotorye trebuyutsya dlya missii".

Kosmicheskie perekhvatchiki - eto oruzhie, razver nutoe na orbite, prednaznachennoe dlya unichtozheniya vrazheskikh raket na etape razgona, samoy ranney stadii poleta. Zolotoy Kupol dolzhen protivodeystvovat' peredovym ugrozam, takim kak giperzvukovoe oruzhie i masshtabnye raketnye ataki, kotorye mogut peregruzit' traditsionnuyu nazemnuyu i morskuyu oboronu. Deystvuya iz kosmosa, perekhvatchiki mogut reagirovat' v techenie sekund posle zapuska, potentsial'no neytralizuya rakety do togo, kak oni pokinut vozdushnoe prostranstvo protivnika ili primenyat kontrmery.

Kosmicheskie sily otobrali 12 kompaniy, vklyuchaya Anduril, dlya razrabotki perekhvatchikov na ranney stadii. Maykl Getlin, kotoryy vozglavlyaet Zolotoy Kupol, zayavil, chto tsel' - prodemonstrirovat' pervonachal'nuyu mnogourovnevuyu protivoraketnuyu oboronu k letu 2028 goda. Eto dayet im chut' bol'she trekh let, chtoby prevratit' etu kosmicheskuyu fantaziyu v real'nost'. Bez davleniya.