Momentus Space is a U.S. commercial space company that aims to provide in-space infrastructure services, including transportation, hosted payloads, and in-orbit services. They are developing orbital service vehicles, like Vigoride, powered by a water plasma-based propulsion system, to carry satellites and payloads between different orbits. Momentus is partnering with companies like Solstar Space and Velo3D, and has contracts with organizations like the U.S. Air Force.
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Momentus has the capability to manufacture M-1000 satellite buses at a rapid and scalable pace.
Since its first mission in May 2022, Momentus has deployed 15 customer satellites.
Momentus will use a deployer on the Transporter-9 mission to deliver customer satellites for SatRev, Contec Co., and Lunasonde.
Momentus’ next mission is targeted to launch on SpaceX Transporter-9 no earlier than November 2023.
The Momentus M-1000 satellite bus provides up to 3 kW of peak power.
Momentus submitted a proposal to the U.S. Space Development Agency to produce 50 m-1000 satellites for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer Alpha program.
Momentus deployed its first mission in May 2022.
Momentus will host a featured presentation at Small Satellite 2023 to discuss its orbital transportation and hosted payload services and its M-1000 satellite bus.
Momentus possesses the capability to manufacture satellite buses such as the M-1000 at a rapid and scalable pace.
Since Momentus’ first mission in May 2022, Momentus has deployed 15 customer satellites.
Momentus submitted a proposal to the U.S. Space Development Agency to produce 50 satellites using the M-1000 satellite bus for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer Alpha program.
Momentus has offered the M-1000 satellite bus to commercial constellation providers and to the U.S. Government.
Momentus’ next mission is targeted to launch on SpaceX Transporter-9 no earlier than November 2023.
The presentation will discuss Momentus’ orbital transportation and hosted payload services and the M-1000 satellite bus.
Momentus tested its Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) on Vigoride-5 using water as a propellant.
Momentus tested its Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) using water as a propellant during the Vigoride-5 mission.
Momentus plans to launch its Vigoride-7 OSV on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission targeted for no earlier than February 2024 after originally scheduling the launch for October 2023.
On Transporter-9, Momentus planned to deploy the AMAN-1 Earth observation satellite for SatRev, which can be used for land survey, precision agriculture, weather, environmental, and smart cities services.
On the Vigoride-7 mission, Momentus will aim to deploy several customer satellites in LEO, provide hosted payload services, release a target satellite, and maneuver the OSV for a Remote Proximity Operations demonstration.
On Transporter-9, Momentus planned to deploy JINJUSat-1 for CONTEC Co. of the Republic of Korea, a satellite spearheaded by Jinju City, Korea Testing Laboratory, and Gyeongsang National University to carry out Earth imaging with mounted cameras.