EurAsian Times:

The US does not have an operational hypersonic missile or a working defense against it, while its rivals wield advanced hypersonic weapons. After registering success in testing hypersonic weapons, it is now pursuing a space-based system to combat the threat from adversarial missiles that are hard to track.

To that end, two new contracts for a constellation of missile surveillance satellites were announced by the US Space Development Agency (SDA). The satellites will track and monitor ‘Chinese and Russian’ hypersonic missiles.

This development comes even as the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is working diligently on a Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) to intercept the hypersonic missile and shoot it down in the middle of the flight’s most vulnerable phase.

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