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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Under an agreement announced 2020-04-22, Momentus will arrange rides for 12 Swarm SpaceBee satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission in 2020-12-01.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in a Series A investment round last year for its Vigoride transportation service.
Momentus will start commercial services in 2021 with the Vigoride vehicle and plans to progressively introduce a family of spacecraft with expanded capabilities.
On 2020-04-03 Momentus and ISIS – Innovative Solutions In Space entered a framework agreement for launch hardware and supporting services to aid the Momentus Vigoride Orbit Transfer Vehicle.
Odysseus Space plans to fly IRIS-A on Momentus’ June 2021 Vigoride mission.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in a Series A funding round in 2019.
Momentus plans to conduct the Vigoride demonstration mission in late 2020.
Momentus entered a launch service agreement on 2020-04-01 with Odysseus Space, a satellite applications startup based in Taiwan.
Momentus plans to offer Vigoride service on quarterly launches in 2021.
Momentus purchased rides on five SpaceX Falcon 9 smallSat rideshare missions in 2020 and 2021 to demonstrate Vigoride’s ability to move customer satellites 300 to 1,200 km beyond the drop-off point.
Aurora Propulsion Technologies plans to send a 1.5-unit cubesat into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December 2020 before riding with Momentus Space’s Vigoride service to sun-synchronous orbit.
Momentus plans to begin offering quarterly shuttles to sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits in 2021.
Momentus launched its first 16-unit cubesat mission in 2019.
Singapore startups NuSpace and Aliena plan to send their joint NuX-1 demonstration satellite on Momentus’ Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle after it launches in early 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Momentus will deploy a SteamJet 1.5-unit cubesat on its Vigoride demonstration mission scheduled to launch later 2020 on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
Momentus has raised about $34,000,000 to develop shuttles to transport satellites from one orbit to another.
Momentus plans to conduct a full-scale test and conduct commercial missions with its Vigoride shuttle in 2020.
Relativity Space has a customer contract with Momentus to launch Momentus’ small and medium satellite customers to GEO.
Momentus completed a $25,500,000 Series A financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $34,000,000.
Relativity Space signed a Launch Services Agreement with Momentus to launch Momentus’ small and medium satellite customers on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket.