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 will deliver small and medium sized satellites to geosynchronous orbit using the Momentus Vigoride Extended in-space shuttle service.
Momentus will provide annual rideshare flights to geosynchronous orbit for satellites ranging from 10 kg up to 350 kg.
Momentus has raised more than $34,000,000 to develop the Vigoride and Vigoride Extended in-space shuttles.
Three Vigoride missions were planned by Momentus for 2020, with two launches to sun-synchronous orbit and one deployment from the International Space Station.
Momentus will fly a Vigoride tug on a Falcon 9 as part of SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare smallsat launch effort announced on 2019-08-22.
Partnering with Momentus enables Relativity Space to address missions beyond low Earth orbit, including geosynchronous launches and satellite phasing in LEO and MEO.
Relativity Space has a contract with Momentus dated 2019-09-11 to carry a set of small satellites to geostationary orbit.
SpaceX reached an agreement with in-space transportation company Momentus on 2019-08-22 for Momentus to fly its Vigoride tug on a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in Series A funding in July.
Momentus plans a 2020 test launch of Vigoride by sending a satellite into orbit through NanoRacks’ Kaber Microsat Deployer on the space station.
Momentus plans to conduct Vigoride demonstration flights in 2020.
Momentus was established in 2017 in Santa Clara, California.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in a Series A funding round announced 2019-07-17.
Momentus launched its first demonstration mission 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket alongside dozens of small satellites and Russia’s Meteor M2-2 weather satellite.
Momentus raised $8,300,000 in seed funding in 2018.
Momentus has raised approximately $16,000,000 since it was established in 2017.
Momentus offers a Vigoride service that is designed to raise satellites in low Earth orbit, deploy low Earth orbit constellations, or move satellites to new planes in sun-synchronous orbit.
Momentus offers the capability to take a 6U cubesat to geostationary orbit for less than $2,000,000.
Momentus will demonstrate its water plasma propulsion on an Astro Digital 16-unit cubesat scheduled to launch 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Momentus raised $8,300,000 in seed funding last year.