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.
All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
Momentus Inc. completed integration of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle for the Transporter-6 mission.
Mission priorities for Momentus’ Transporter-6 flight include deploying Qosmosys’ Zeus-1 payload.
Mission priorities for Momentus’ Transporter-6 flight include testing Vigoride’s performance in space.
Mission priorities for Momentus’ Transporter-6 flight include hosting Caltech’s Space-based Solar Power Project payload.
Momentus is a U.S. commercial space company that offers in-space infrastructure services, including in-space transportation and hosted payloads.
Momentus is developing an innovative water plasma-based propulsion system for its in-space transfer and service vehicles.
CUAVA-2 is targeted for deployment from a Momentus Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle, which will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Momentus Inc. has signed a contract with the CUAVA Training Centre at the University of Sydney to deploy the CUAVA-2 cubesat to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in October 2023.
Momentus is seeking to extend its available cash to support operations through the end of 2023.
Momentus has two additional Vigoride vehicles in development planned to fly on Transporter missions in February and May 2023 using the Block 2.2 design.
Momentus’ Vigoride 5 is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission in December on a Falcon 9 from Florida.
Momentus reported $129,000 in revenue in the third quarter of 2022 and adjusted negative EBITDA of $16,000,000 for the quarter.
Vigoride 3, Momentus’ first tug launched on Transporter-5 in May 2022, experienced communications issues and a solar array that failed to properly deploy.
Momentus completed a flight readiness review for Vigoride 5 about a week before 2022-11-08 and planned to ship the spacecraft to Cape Canaveral shortly thereafter.
Momentus completed comprehensive ground testing of the solar arrays that will support its second demonstration mission scheduled to launch on SpaceX Transporter-6 in December 2022.
Momentus plans to fully test its Microwave Electrothermal Thruster propulsion system that uses water as a propellant in space.
Momentus released a fifth mission update on its inaugural Vigoride mission that launched on 2022-05-25.
Momentus deployed two FOSSA satellites from Vigoride on 2022-05-28.
Momentus deployed four additional FOSSA satellites from Vigoride in July 2022.
Momentus deployed a SelfieSat two-unit cubesat developed by Orbit NTNU at the end of August 2022.