Long Wall
Missile-defense company applying ABL's launch-vehicle and deployable-ground-systems heritage to interceptors, threat-replication boosters, and test infrastructure.
The product
Cyclops, a mass-producible exoatmospheric interceptor; RSX low-cost liquid boosters for flight testing and threat replication; and Ironwood deployable ground-support equipment for launch and test operations.
The thesis
Long Wall is targeting demand for larger quantities of missile-defense interceptors and realistic flight-test targets using technology, facilities, and operational experience developed during ABL's launch program.
How it runs
Vertically integrated aerospace development and operations across vehicles, propulsion, ground systems, licensing, test, and flight, with facilities in California, Mojave, and Kodiak.
How it earns
Inferred: U.S. government missile-defense development, test, target, infrastructure, and eventual procurement contracts. Public product pages do not disclose current contract values or unit pricing.
Why it wins
Seven years of ABL engineering and flight operations are being reused for missile-defense products, including deployable ground infrastructure and mature liquid-propulsion work.
Evidence ledger
- website · 2026-04-24
ABL Space Systems identifies as a reindustrialization company.
https://ablspacesystems.com - first-party · 2026-09-21
Long Wall identifies Cyclops, RSX, and Ironwood as its products and says they build on seven years of ABL R&D, infrastructure, systems, and flight operations.
https://www.lwall.com/ - web · 2026-09-08
Official rebrand from ABL Space Systems to Long Wall; Strategic pivot to missile defense; Verticalized, containerized, and mass-producible development model
https://www.lwall.com/news/letter-from-the-ceo-2025 - web · 2026-09-08
Cyclops mission and hit-to-kill architecture; First kill-vehicle prototype and testing status; Design objective of manufacturing hundreds or thousands of interceptors
https://www.lwall.com/news/announcing-cyclops-the-mass-producible-interceptor - authoritative-media · 2026-09-21
Aviation Week reported that ABL Space Systems rebranded as Long Wall as it shifted its primary mission toward missile defense.
https://aviationweek.com/defense/missile-defense-weapons/abl-space-systems-rebrands-long-wall-shift-missile-defense
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