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 has been awarded six contracts from NASA in recent months.
Solstar Space and Momentus are partnering to combine their capabilities and jointly market in-space data relay and communications as well as in-space logistics.
The Deke Space Communicator will provide relay services to two other Momentus customers onboard the Vigoride-7 mission.
Solstar and Momentus announced a three-year reciprocal services agreement worth up to $15 million to combine their space-based communication products and logistics services.
Momentus provides a versatile platform enhanced by Solstar's communications capability.
The Deke Space Communicator will provide persistent connectivity for tracking, telemetry, and command services for Momentus.
Momentus will utilize the Solstar service as a preferred partner and make it available to other customers.
Momentus will provide the satellite bus and on-orbit operations on the fifth Vigoride mission.
Momentus will host an in-space crystallization demonstration for NASA under a $5.1 million contract.
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center awarded Momentus a $2.5 million contract to conduct a demonstration on-orbit of a new thruster called the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE).
Momentus signed a contract to perform a demonstration mission showcasing Pulsar Fusion’s newest Hall Effect Thruster technology.
The contract is part of a strategic partnership between Momentus and Pulsar Fusion.
Momentus is supporting Pulsar's journey to develop next-generation technology with its Vigoride orbital service vehicle.
The collaboration between Momentus and Pulsar highlights the growing importance of flexible orbital service vehicles in the commercial space sector.
Solstar is collaborating with Momentus in 2026 to demonstrate what they claim will be the first commercial WiFi hotspot in low Earth orbit.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
Momentus launched a pathfinder demonstration of TASSA to Low-Earth Orbit on the Vigoride-6 mission one year ago and tested it in space for several months.
Momentus Space LLC of San Jose, California was awarded a contract to provide flight and payload integration services.
Momentus is one of 15 companies selected under the NASA ID/IQ contract that are eligible to receive task or delivery orders to provide in-space transportation services.
Momentus was awarded a NASA indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contract with a five-year performance period to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space.