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 an agreement with Hello Space to carry a hosted payload of a demo deployer on the Vigoride-7 mission.
Momentus launched its inaugural Vigoride mission, Vigoride-3, in May 2022.
Momentus Inc. signed an agreement with Hello Space to carry a hosted payload of a demo deployer on the Vigoride-7 mission.
Momentus launched its inaugural Vigoride mission, Vigoride-3, in May 2022 and deployed eight satellites to orbit from Vigoride and a third-party deployer.
Vigoride-6 requires significant delta-V from Momentus’s MET propulsion system to deliver NASA’s payloads to custom orbits and includes a Momentus technology demonstration of a new kind of solar array.
With the launch of the Vigoride-6 OSV, Momentus will operate two spacecraft in orbit concurrently.
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) launched its third Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) to low Earth orbit on 2023-04-14 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-7 mission.
Momentus will use its Electrothermal Thruster (MET) propulsion technology, which uses water as a propellant, to change the orbital inclination of the Vigoride OSV for these deliveries.
Techno Planet Inc. partnered with Momentus Inc. to design and build Solar Array Drive Assemblies for the Vigoride orbital service vehicle.
Techno Planet Inc. collaborated with Momentus Inc. to design and build Solar Array Drive Assemblies (SADAs) for the Momentus Vigoride orbital service vehicle (OSV).
Momentus completed an initial test sequence of the Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) on Vigoride-5.
Momentus is developing a new generation of the MET system intended to increase engine efficiency and potentially extend engine lifetime to support refuelable and reusable versions of the Vigoride bus.
Momentus is preparing to launch Vigoride-6 on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 rideshare mission in April.
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) completed the initial on-orbit test sequence of its Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET).
Momentus is preparing to launch Vigoride-6 on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 rideshare mission in April.
Momentus completed an initial test sequence of the Microwave Electrothermal Thruster on its Vigoride-5 vehicle launched in January on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission.
Vigoride-5, Momentus’ second demonstration mission, launched in January 2023.
Momentus launched its inaugural Vigoride mission in May 2022 that deployed eight customer payloads from Vigoride-3 and a third-party deployer.
Momentus completed final flight preparations and integrated Vigoride-6 with a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
Momentus raised $10,000,000 from an unnamed institutional investor on 2023-02-23 to make the final payment to Russian co-founders Mikhail Kokorich and Lev Khasis as part of a 2021 share divestment agreement.