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Momentus plans to begin flights of its Vigoride space tugs in 2022.
Momentus plans to make Vigoride tugs reusable and capable of proximity operations to pick up satellites launched on low-cost rideshare missions and deliver them to precise orbits.
Momentus completed its SPAC merger and started trading on the Nasdaq on 2021-08-13.
Momentus, Exolaunch, and Spaceflight are developing orbital transfer vehicles that provide post-separation delivery of satellites to different orbits.
The FAA denied the payload review for the June 2021 launch, citing national security concerns over Momentus’s Russian co-founders.
Momentus was unable to complete a payload review by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation needed for the original launch and moved the mission to another Falcon 9 rideshare mission in June 2021.
Momentus merged with a SPAC and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker MNTS on 2021-08-13.
Aurora announced in December 2020 that AuroraSat-1 was manifested to launch on the first Vigoride tug by Momentus, then scheduled to launch in January 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Momentus expects to launch its first Vigoride tug no earlier than June 2022 as it implements a national security agreement intended to address earlier concerns.
Shareholders of Stable Road Acquisition Corp. approved a merger with in-space transportation company Momentus on 2021-08-11.
Redemptions reduced the cash Momentus will receive from the SPAC from $173,000,000 to $137,000,000.
The Momentus merger was first announced 10 months before the 2021-08-11 shareholder vote.
The launch services agreement between Momentus and DISCO was signed earlier 2021 and targets a mid-2022 launch.
Either the tested third-generation MET thruster or a newer, easier-to-manufacture version will be used on Momentus’ first Vigoride mission, which is expected in June 2022 pending regulatory approvals.
Momentus claimed that its water plasma (microwave electro-thermal, MET) thrusters were successfully tested in 2019 on the experimental cubesat El Camino Real.
Momentus reached a national security agreement with the U.S. Defense Department and U.S. Treasury Department on 2021-06-09.
Momentus stated in its S-4 registration that El Camino Real produced data demonstrating the thruster system could produce thrust despite problems with a pump designed to send water into the thruster chamber.
Momentus plans to begin offering in-space transportation services on future missions as soon as October 2022 if the hybrid demo is successful.
Momentus is testing a third-generation MET thruster and reported that the thruster completed 350 cycles in an ongoing life cycle test as of 2021-07-29.
Momentus, Stable Road, and Stable Road CEO Brian Kabot agreed to pay more than $8,000,000 in penalties related to false claims by Momentus and alleged failures of due diligence by Stable Road.