Cape CanaveralHundreds of drone incursions hit the region last year.
The Space Force will install lasers to shoot drones down over SpaceX and Blue Origin’s launch site.
Blasting radio energy to jam drones poses risks near spacecraft, Colonel Brian Chatman said, so lasers do the kill.
Space Launch Delta 45 gave no date for the system to go operational and declined to name it.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone
- quantifies drone threat (hundreds annually); names commercial operators sharing perimeter
Sources: The War Zone