Impulse Space, founded in 2021 by ex-SpaceX engineer Tom Mueller, is an in-space transportation company and space tug provider. It develops orbital transfer vehicles like Mira and Helios to move satellites and payloads from LEO to other orbits, including GEO, lunar, and Martian destinations. Impulse Space has partnered with companies like Relativity Space, Exolaunch, and Anduril, and was selected by NASA as a launch service provider under the VADR contract.
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Impulse Space is committed to meeting a current launch timeline of 2023-10-01 for LEO Express-1.
Impulse Space provides in-space transportation to custom orbits, in-space payload hosting, and precision re-entry trajectory injection with a near-term focus on Low Earth Orbit.
Impulse Space plans long-term delivery services for all classes of payloads to destinations including Geostationary Earth Orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
Impulse Space procured a launch slot for LEO Express-1 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-9 mission.
Impulse Space will launch its first orbital transfer vehicle late in 2023 on a SpaceX rideshare mission.
Mira is the first in a series of Impulse Space vehicles that will include future vehicles capable of placing payloads into geostationary transfer orbits or performing direct insertions into geostationary orbit.
Impulse Space plans additional missions in 2024 and will use future SpaceX Transporter missions as well as opportunities on other vehicles such as Relativity Space’s Terran.
LEO Express-1, using Impulse Space's transfer vehicle Mira, is manifested for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 rideshare mission currently scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023.
Multi-thruster Astra Spacecraft Engine™ electric propulsion systems increase thrust and total impulse available to spacecraft.
Max-V is designed to operate from 200 Watts to 1.5 kiloWatts, achieve 50 mN thrust, exceed 1,200 seconds specific impulse, and deliver more than 100 kNs total impulse.
Max-V is designed to deliver over 100 kilonewton-seconds of total impulse.
Max-V is designed to lower propulsion costs and extend operational lifetimes of small satellites in low Earth orbit while providing higher total impulse for missions beyond LEO.
Max-V is designed to achieve 50 millinewtons of thrust and over 1,200 seconds of specific impulse.
Max-V is designed to achieve over 1,200 seconds specific impulse (Isp).
Max-V is designed to deliver over 100 kNs of total impulse.
Max-V is designed to deliver over 100 kilonewton-seconds of total impulse.
Max-V is designed to achieve 50 millinewtons of thrust and over 1,200 seconds of specific impulse.
Neither Intuitive Machines nor Impulse Space raised their bids at the auction, resulting in Astrobotic winning the auction.
At the auction, Impulse Space offered $750,000 for equipment located at Masten Space Systems’ Mojave, California headquarters.
As part of the AFRL contract, Ursa Major will provide the Air Force Research Laboratory with statistically significant data sets from extensive testing of multiple Hadley engines, including measurements of specific impulse, combustion stability, vibration and shock profiles, and ranges of inlet pressures and temperatures.