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Defense Space Startup Secures $650M Funding For Interceptor Satellites
True Anomaly, a US defense space startup, has raised $650 million in a Series D funding round, valuing the company at $2.2 billion. The financing coincides with the company’s entry into the Pentagon’s Golden Dome program, an effort to develop space-based interceptors designed to counter missile threats. True Anomaly plans to use the funding to expand manufacturing and hiring, with the goal of producing up to 50 Jackal spacecraft annually. The company’s growth and investment in space-based interceptors may signal a new era in national security and space technology, as reported by SpaceNews.