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 selected Scout to deliver spacecraft vision capabilities for upcoming missions and Scout won a $50,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate space-collected data for debris tracking and collision predictions.
Italian firms D-Orbit and GAUSS, along with U.S. companies Momentus, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Spaceflight Inc. have developed orbital transfer vehicles.
Momentus’ Vigoride-3 orbital transfer vehicle launched 2022-05-25 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
Momentus’ shares have fallen by nearly 40% since 2022-06-06.
Momentus is working with the unidentified company that provided the solar arrays and together have identified what Momentus believes is the root cause of the arrays not operating as intended.
Momentus had a payload on a second port deployed from an adapter provided by an unnamed trusted partner.
Momentus continues efforts to address the anomalies on Vigoride-3 but has substantially declined confidence in deploying additional customer satellites from Vigoride-3 and performing some planned vehicle operations on the test and demonstration mission.
The FCC approved a 30-day Special Temporary Authority for Momentus on 2022-06-09.
Momentus has continued efforts to deploy other customer satellites from Vigoride but has not confirmed any subsequent deployments after 2022-05-28.
On a second port on the launch vehicle on 2022-05-25, Momentus used third-party hardware from a partner company to deploy another customer satellite in orbit.
Momentus Inc. provided a third Mission Update since the launch of the Vigoride-3 spacecraft on 2022-05-25.
Momentus conducted months of work to implement a National Security Agreement overseen by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Treasury and worked with the FAA, FCC, and NOAA to obtain necessary government licenses, determinations, and approvals to conduct the Vigoride flight.
Momentus has agreements signed with SpaceX for launches on upcoming Transporter missions in 2022 and 2023, including Transporter-6 currently targeted for November 2022.
Momentus obtained a special temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission to use an unplanned frequency to assist in resolving Vigoride-3 communication problems.
Momentus deployed two satellites from Vigoride-3 that were both from FOSSA Systems.
Momentus determined the communications equipment on Vigoride-3 is erroneously operating on center frequencies of 2,067.5 megahertz (uplink) and 8,250 megahertz (downlink).
Momentus launched its first space tug, Vigoride-3, on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 on 2022-05-25.
Momentus requested permission to operate Vigoride-3 at the actual operating frequencies for 30 days while working to set the spacecraft to the originally authorized frequencies.
SCOUT's navigation capabilities are being adopted by Orbit Fab and Momentus, with considerations from additional commercial and Defense users.
FOSSA Systems is a customer on Momentus’s first Vigoride flight and is deploying multiple smallsats as part of a constellation to provide global real-time Internet of Things connectivity for industrial applications.