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 plans to comprehensively test Vigoride in space, including its water-based propellant propulsion system.
Momentus deployed one satellite from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona on 2022-05-25 from a third-party deployer on a second port of the launch vehicle.
LuxSpace will fly its Triton-X smallsat platform aboard a Momentus Vigoride Orbital Transfer Vehicle in 2023.
Vigoride-3 has suffered communications issues and Momentus has not been able to establish two-way communication with the spacecraft since late May after it deployed two smallsats.
Momentus has reserved ports on three SpaceX Transporter launches in 2023 for additional Vigoride missions and is working on Vigoride-5, Vigoride-6, and Vigoride-7.
Momentus deployed additional satellites from its first space tug, Vigoride-3.
Momentus deployed four satellites from the Vigoride-3 tug in July 2022.
Momentus deployed two satellites from Vigoride-3 three days after its 2022-05-25 launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
Momentus is moving ahead with its next vehicle, Vigoride-5, scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission in November 2022.
A total of seven Momentus customer satellites have been deployed to low Earth orbit from the Vigoride-3 mission.
Momentus plans additional Vigoride launches later in 2022 and in 2023 as stated in its 2022-05-10 Q1 earnings call.
Momentus successfully deployed four additional customer satellites from Vigoride-3 in July 2022.
Momentus deployed one customer satellite on 2022-05-25 from a third-party deployer that flew on a second port of the launch vehicle.
Momentus’ inaugural Vigoride mission launched on 2022-05-25.
Momentus initially deployed two customer satellites from its Vigoride-3 Orbital Transfer Vehicle on 2022-05-28.
Momentus is implementing corrective actions on the Vigoride-5 vehicle that it plans to fly on SpaceX Transporter-6.
Momentus has agreements with SpaceX for Vigoride launches on Transporter missions in 2022 and 2023.
Scout Space plans to launch additional vision sensors on upcoming missions, including two planned with the space transportation startup Momentus.
Momentus Space launched its first Vigoride mission on 2022-05-25 on a Falcon 9 without Kepler onboard.
In October 2020, Kepler Communications agreed to use Momentus Space’s Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle to deploy two satellites in 2021.