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SpaceX issued a last-minute trajectory alteration for the ATMOS mission that forced the Phoenix capsule to land off the coast of Brazil.
The ATMOS Space Cargo Phoenix return capsule is equipped with an inflatable heatshield to survive re-entry.
The article was updated on 19 September to clarify that BentoBox is a payload platform that will initially be launched aboard the Phoenix return capsule provided by ATMOS Space Cargo.
BentoBox will initially be offered as a standalone offering flown aboard an ATMOS Space Cargo Phoenix return capsule.
Atmos announced a contract with French launch startup Latitude on 2024-11-19 for five launches per year of Latitude’s Zephyr rocket from 2028 through 2032.
Atmos partnered with Space Cargo Unlimited on a line of microgravity research missions called BentoBox announced 2024-12-03.
Atmos plans one or two launches in 2025 and plans to ramp up to monthly launches by 2028.
Atmos’s technology uses an inflatable heat shield similar to NASA’s 2022 LOFTID demonstration and to an inflatable concept United Launch Alliance proposed to recover the Vulcan rocket’s engine section.
Atmos has raised eight million euros to date and is working to raise a Series A round of about 15,000,000 EUR.
Atmos Space Cargo and Space Cargo Unlimited are partnering to provide microgravity research and manufacturing missions to low Earth orbit independent of the International Space Station.
Atmos Space Cargo raised 1,300,000 EUR in February as an extension of a seed round that initially generated 4,000,000 EUR for the company in 2023.
Atmos Space Cargo will buy a minimum of five launches per year of Latitude’s Zephyr rocket between 2028 and 2032.
Rocket Factory Augsburg and ATMOS Space Cargo are collaborating on the Argo cargo vehicle concept for the ISS.
ATMOS Space Cargo will supervise and execute the return from low Earth orbit (LEO) to the Azores and will perform early retrieval of the capsule after landing and the recovery mission to the final location.
Rocket Factory Augsburg, Yuri, and ATMOS Space Cargo announced a partnership at the Weltraumkongress in Berlin to launch a joint end-to-end service for microgravity life science research and product development.
ATMOS Space Cargo will supervise and execute the safe return from low Earth orbit to the Azores and perform early retrieval of the capsule after landing and recovery to the final location.
Atmos has worked with Sony since 2016.