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 signed a services agreement with Hello Space to provide hosted-payload service for a deployer carrying four PocketQubes.
Momentus’s picosatellite deployer will house several satellites serving IoT, Earth observation, and demonstration platforms for yet-to-be-announced customers.
Momentus signed a services agreement with an unnamed customer for the orbital delivery of the first tranche of picosatellites for a planned 100-satellite constellation.
Momentus signed a contract with SpaceX to reserve a port on the Transporter-12 mission targeted to launch no earlier than October 2024.
Momentus was selected for funding from the Space Development Agency via a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 award that SDA is collaborating to complete with the Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate AFWERX.
Momentus was selected for funding from the Space Development Agency for a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 award in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate AFWERX.
Momentus signed a services agreement with Lunasonde to deliver a CubeSat to orbit from the Vigoride-7 mission targeted for launch in October on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission.
Momentus signed a contract with SpaceX to reserve a port on the Transporter-12 mission targeted for launch no earlier than October 2024.
A Momentus orbital service vehicle launched on a small launch vehicle would approach Hubble, attach using Astroscale’s technology, boost Hubble’s orbit by 50 km, and then undock.
Astroscale and Momentus proposed working together to attach a vehicle to the Hubble Space Telescope and raise its orbit.
Orbital altitude raises are part of Momentus’ transportation service offering to deliver customer satellites to precise, custom orbits.
Momentus launched its inaugural Vigoride mission, Vigoride-3, in May 2022 and deployed eight satellites to orbit from Vigoride and a third-party deployer.
Astroscale U.S. Inc. and Momentus Inc. are collaborating to offer NASA a sustainable solution for the agency’s Hubble Reboost efforts.
Vigoride-6, launched in April 2023, is carrying satellites for NASA and commercial customers and a solar array developed by Momentus that will be demonstrated in space.
Momentus Inc. achieved the first orbital raise of its Vigoride-5 spacecraft using a Microwave Electrothermal Thruster that uses distilled water as propellant.
Momentus completed more than 35 firings of the MET ranging from 30 seconds up to six minutes in duration during the Vigoride-5 mission.
Momentus reported a net loss of $91,300,000 in 2022.
Momentus launched Vigoride-6 on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 mission on 2023-04-15, and that tug carries a pair of NASA cubesats among several other payloads and is undergoing post-launch commissioning.
Momentus launched its inaugural mission, Vigoride-3, in May 2022 and deployed eight satellites to orbit from Vigoride and a third-party deployer.
Vigoride-6, launched in April 2023, is carrying satellites for NASA and commercial customers and a solar array developed by Momentus for on-orbit demonstration.