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Momentus will fly a Vigoride tug on a Falcon 9 as part of SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare smallsat launch effort announced on 2019-08-22.
SpaceX reached an agreement with in-space transportation company Momentus on 2019-08-22 for Momentus to fly its Vigoride tug on a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission.
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Momentus plans a 2020 test launch of Vigoride by sending a satellite into orbit through NanoRacks’ Kaber Microsat Deployer on the space station.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in Series A funding in July.
Momentus launched its first demonstration mission 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket alongside dozens of small satellites and Russia’s Meteor M2-2 weather satellite.
Momentus plans to conduct Vigoride demonstration flights in 2020.
Momentus raised $25,500,000 in a Series A funding round announced 2019-07-17.
Momentus was established in 2017 in Santa Clara, California.
Momentus raised $8,300,000 in seed funding in 2018.
Momentus will demonstrate its water plasma propulsion on an Astro Digital 16-unit cubesat scheduled to launch 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Momentus offers a Vigoride service that is designed to raise satellites in low Earth orbit, deploy low Earth orbit constellations, or move satellites to new planes in sun-synchronous orbit.
Momentus has raised approximately $16,000,000 since it was established in 2017.
Momentus offers the capability to take a 6U cubesat to geostationary orbit for less than $2,000,000.
Momentus’ orbital transport vehicle is housed in a 61 by 71 by 0.25 m aluminum bus and has a fueled mass of 80 kg.
Momentus raised $8,300,000 in seed funding last year.
Exolaunch signed a contract to pay Momentus more than $6,000,000 to move satellites in low Earth orbit in 2020 with the Vigoride service and to move satellites from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit in 2021 with the Vigoride Extended service.
Momentus plans to demonstrate its Vigoride spacecraft powered by water-plasma thrusters in orbit in 2019.
Momentus raised $8,300,000 in seed funding for its in-space transportation business on 2018-11-14.
Momentus plans to begin offering in-space transportation in 2020 using Vigoride.