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Momentus successfully deployed four additional customer satellites from Vigoride-3 in July 2022.
Momentus’ inaugural Vigoride mission launched on 2022-05-25.
Momentus is implementing corrective actions on the Vigoride-5 vehicle that it plans to fly on SpaceX Transporter-6.
Momentus has agreements with SpaceX for Vigoride launches on Transporter missions in 2022 and 2023.
Momentus deployed one customer satellite on 2022-05-25 from a third-party deployer that flew on a second port of the launch vehicle.
A total of seven Momentus customer satellites have been deployed to low Earth orbit from the Vigoride-3 mission.
Momentus initially deployed two customer satellites from its Vigoride-3 Orbital Transfer Vehicle on 2022-05-28.
Momentus plans additional Vigoride launches later in 2022 and in 2023 as stated in its 2022-05-10 Q1 earnings call.
Scout Space plans to launch additional vision sensors on upcoming missions, including two planned with the space transportation startup Momentus.
In October 2020, Kepler Communications agreed to use Momentus Space’s Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle to deploy two satellites in 2021.
Momentus Space launched its first Vigoride mission on 2022-05-25 on a Falcon 9 without Kepler onboard.
Momentus selected Scout to deliver spacecraft vision capabilities for upcoming missions and Scout won a $50,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate space-collected data for debris tracking and collision predictions.
Italian firms D-Orbit and GAUSS, along with U.S. companies Momentus, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Spaceflight Inc. have developed orbital transfer vehicles.
Momentus had a payload on a second port deployed from an adapter provided by an unnamed trusted partner.
Momentus continues efforts to address the anomalies on Vigoride-3 but has substantially declined confidence in deploying additional customer satellites from Vigoride-3 and performing some planned vehicle operations on the test and demonstration mission.
Momentus’ shares have fallen by nearly 40% since 2022-06-06.
Momentus’ Vigoride-3 orbital transfer vehicle launched 2022-05-25 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
Momentus is working with the unidentified company that provided the solar arrays and together have identified what Momentus believes is the root cause of the arrays not operating as intended.
On a second port on the launch vehicle on 2022-05-25, Momentus used third-party hardware from a partner company to deploy another customer satellite in orbit.
Momentus conducted months of work to implement a National Security Agreement overseen by the Department of Defense and the Department of the Treasury and worked with the FAA, FCC, and NOAA to obtain necessary government licenses, determinations, and approvals to conduct the Vigoride flight.