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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Made In Space Europe and Momentus plan a 2022 demonstration mission to evaluate how robotic arms can improve in-space transportation within a fully integrated system.
Momentus agreed on 2020-09-02 to integrate two PocketPod deployers containing nine PocketQube spacecraft from Spain’s Fossa Systems with its second Vigoride demonstration mission.
Momentus scheduled its second Vigoride demonstration mission to launch in February 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Made In Space Europe and Momentus entered a memorandum of understanding on 2020-09-01 to jointly develop a robotic spaceflight mission planned to launch in 2022.
The 3U cubesat will be mated with a Momentus transfer vehicle that will take the cubesat to a sun-synchronous orbit about 550 km above the Earth’s surface after release from the SpaceX rocket.
Momentus purchased rides on five SpaceX Falcon 9 SmallSat rideshare missions in 2020 and 2021.
Momentus is offering a white glove hosted payload service in which customers are only responsible for supplying the payload.
Momentus plans to begin flying hosted payloads for customers in 2021.
Research institutes could test new solar cell technologies, large unfurlable antennas, and payloads requiring up to 1 kilowatt of power or up to 300 kg of mass using Momentus’ hosted payload service without building or operating their own satellite.
Momentus and Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILAUNCH) executed a launch agreement for five Vigoride shuttle services from 2021 through 2022.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in a Series A financing round last year, bringing total funding to nearly $50,000,000.
Momentus entered agreements on 2020-06-16 to provide transportation for two cubesats on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare flight scheduled for 2021-02-01.
Momentus purchased rides on five SpaceX Falcon 9 smallSat rideshare missions in 2020 and 2021 to demonstrate Vigoride’s capability.
Momentus signed a contract with OrbAstro on 2020-06-04.
Momentus plans to conduct the first test flight of its Vigoride orbit transfer vehicle 2020.
Momentus has booked multiple Vigoride shuttles on SpaceX Falcon 9 missions slated for 2020 and 2021.
Alba Orbital will work with Momentus to send as many as ten PocketQubes on the same Falcon 9 flight.
Sen’s contract with Momentus includes an option to deploy four Sen satellites in late 2022 with Vigoride equally distributing the four satellites in an orbital plane.
Momentus plans to conduct the first test flight of the Vigoride transfer vehicle 2020 before beginning commercial operations.
Swarm signed an agreement on 2020-04-22 to launch 12 satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in December with a Vigoride in-space shuttle from Momentus to deploy them into specific orbital planes.