WASHINGTON — A new collaboration between commercial space and defense firms Varda Space Industries, LeoLabs, and Anduril successfully demonstrated advanced hypersonic vehicle tracking, the companies announced Sept. 8

In the demonstration, LeoLabs’ radar tracked the hypersonic reentry of a Varda Space Industries capsule that landed in Australia in May. Anduril’s Lattice software took the raw tracking data and used artificial intelligence to turn it into useful intelligence.

This test conducted by private firms comes as the Pentagon seeks commercial industry innovation to aid in the Golden Dome initiative, a program designed to detect, track and defeat adversary hypersonic missiles while they are in flight. Such missiles, which can travel at speeds exceeding Mach 5 and maneuver in unpredic

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