Astronomy Prints 🌌: Space Minds: Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on making Golden Dome a success

Monday, May 4, 2026

Space Minds: Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on making Golden Dome a success

05/04/2026

Watch and listen to the Space Minds podcast by SpaceNews

Stay plugged into the pulse of space innovation and strategy. Get actionable insights to make sure your business is ahead of the curve. Subscribe to SpaceNews.

In this episode of Space Minds, SpaceNews' Mike Gruss talks with Arcfield CEO Kevin Kelly on how he’s thinking about AI, how he defines space superiority and what needs to happen to make Golden Dome a success.

CEO Series: Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on making Golden Dome a success

FROM THE CONVERSATION

Mike Gruss: Tell me what "space superiority" means to you, and also how our listeners should be thinking about it.

Kevin Kelly: Space superiority to us at Arcfield, and to many of our mission partners on the government side, means the ability to operate with impunity without being challenged. To be able to surveil our adversaries in a similar domain; to be able to communicate with privacy and protection and be able to provide, if it’s a war fighting domain, which space certainly is a war fighting domain, to be able to stay at least one step ahead of our adversary in that space. I’d say as a nation, we got very complacent. We allowed our nation-state competitors to enter into that domain, to invest in that domain, to take a leadership position with certain technologies.

FROM SPACENEWS

Reach more than 2,000 smallsat professionals in our daily show editions published during SmallSat Europe in Amsterdam from May 26 to 28.

Be part of the conversation at Amsterdam: Reach attendees via our first-ever conference dailies outside the United States. Our SmallSat Europe editions offer high-visibility that helps you reach defense, security and commercial smallsat decisionmakers. Book your ad, press release or sponsored content today – premium positions are still available. Start a conversation with our team.

📨 Don't miss what's next. Sign up for other SpaceNews newsletters:

Europe Report: Tracking the policy landscape, investment climate and regional priorities driving Europe’s space ambitions.

First Up: Every weekday morning, Jeff Foust delivers the day's most important industry headlines.

Military Space: Veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin with weekly news and insights for the military space professional.

China Report: Biweekly news and analysis from correspondent Andrew Jones on business, politics and technology in the Chinese space industry.

SpaceNext AI: Exploring the intersection of space and artificial intelligence.

SpaceNews Mission Brief: Golden Dome: Explaining the Golden Dome initiative and what it means for the space industry.

Marketing Minute: Covering PR, marketing and advertising trends for industry communications leaders.

Editor’s Choice: Our most important recent stories you may have missed, with background and insights from editors, reporters and contributors.

Opinions: A weekly digest of the latest commentary and analysis.

SpaceNews This Week: The week’s top headlines and our conference coverage.

Subscribe to SpaceNews

This email has been sent to generalastronomy110.stnirp@blogger.com because you previously opted in to receive emails from SpaceNews. Unsubscribe here. Sign up for other SpaceNews newsletters.