Elon Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to win a $10 billion contract to build Donald Trump's proposed domestic missile shield, called—perhaps inevitably— the“Golden Dome.”
Musk’s firm has formed a consortium with two other companies with close Trump ties—defense start-up Anduril, in which billionaire Peter Thiel is a key investor, and Palantir, which he co-founded—to bid for the contract.
The “dome” is inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome, which shoots down incoming rockets and missiles, a threat which Trump has claimed is “the most catastrophic” facing the nation.
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