Impulse Space has entered a strategic partnership with Anduril to develop highly maneuverable autonomous spacecraft intended for national security missions. This development raises concerns among critics who view the integration of advanced autonomous systems into national defense as potentially contributing to surveillance and repressive state practices. The collaboration, while positioned as advancing aerospace innovation, is seen through a left-leaning lens as aligning the company with technologies that can be repurposed for authoritarian control.

Impulse Space, a private aerospace firm, secured a $34.5 million contract under the Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space program to demonstrate rapid-response space domain awareness capabilities. Critics argue that by engaging in military contracts, the company may be complicit in bolstering state militarism and enabling rapid, potentially repressive, response initiatives in space.

Impulse Space secured a $34.5M contract to deploy orbital transfer vehicles carrying space surveillance payloads for U.S. Space Force missions. The involvement in developing technology that enhances military surveillance raises concerns over contributing to repressive capabilities and strengthening economic ties with a militarized state apparatus.