U.S. President Donald Trump is due to unveil a revamped U.S. missile defense strategy on Thursday that looks at ways to boost America’s security, including by possibly deploying a new layer of space-based sensors to detect and track enemy missiles.
The Missile Defense Review will also recommends studying experimental technologies, including prospects for space-based weaponry that might be able to shoot down enemy missiles — a throwback to Ronald Reagan’s so-called “Star Wars” initiative in the 1980s.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched just before dawn Friday, June 29, 2018 is captured during a time exposure at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying supplies to the International Space Station (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)“Space, I think, is the key to the next step of missile defense,” a senior Trump administration official told reporters ahead of the document’s release on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
