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 collaborating with Anduril on the Golden Dome for America initiative.
Anduril is integrating system technologies from Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National Labs, and Voyager Technologies into its Space-Based Interceptor solutions.
Each Qianfan satellite uses an electric hall-effect thruster burning krypton that produces 20 millinewtons of thrust with a specific impulse of 1,385 seconds.
Impulse Space develops space tugs and orbital transfer vehicles.
The RL10’s LH2/LOX performance envelope includes 465.5 seconds of specific impulse in its ICPS variant.
Impulse has a partnership with Anduril on the Golden Dome SBI program.
Cosmoleap expects Qingyu-11 to generate around 150 tons of thrust with a thrust range of 30 to 105 percent and a specific impulse of up to 350 seconds.
Impulse Space President and COO Eric Romo said Golden Dome faces major challenges in maturing boost-phase intercept technology, producing spacecraft at constellation scale, and overcoming political hurdles.
Astrobotic says RDREs can improve specific impulse by up to 15%, increase thrust-to-weight ratio, and reduce engine size and weight.
The Chakram engine can potentially increase specific impulse by up to 15%.
The Gauss thruster is designed to produce higher specific impulse than traditional chemical propulsion systems.
BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund and Rabo Ventures backed OroraTech’s €37 million Series B extension.
InfinAstro’s 100N liquid rocket engine had a rated vacuum specific impulse of 290 seconds.
Starfish Space’s Remora mission with Impulse Space is designed to autonomously bring spacecraft to within 1,250 meters of each other.
Each Qianfan satellite has a specific impulse of 1,385 seconds.
After the pyrotechnic locks were blown and the cable masts were withdrawn, the LOK would give a short impulse with its attitude thrusters.
The LOK would give a short impulse with its attitude thrusters after the pyrotechnic locks were blown and the cable masts were withdrawn, allowing the LK to slip out of the adapter.
The LK would slip out of the upper adapter after the LOK’s thruster impulse.
Tom Mueller is the founder and CEO of Impulse Space.
Impulse Space has opened a downtown Washington, D.C., office to support its work across commercial, civil, and government sectors.