https://spacewatch.global/tag/momentus/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:19:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/momentus/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/03/spacexs-falcon-9-launches-119-payloads-on-transporter-16-mission-from-california/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=72480 SpaceX has completed its 16th Transporter rideshare mission, deploying 119 payloads to orbit.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/05/momentus-to-host-portal-spaces-inaugural-on-orbit-demonstration-mission/ Fri, 30 May 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=65548 Momentus is partnering with Portal Space Systems to provide hosted payload services for the first on-orbit demonstration of Portal's flight computer technology. Momentus will carry the payload alongside several mission-critical payloads aboard its Vigoride 7 Orbital Service Vehicle, no earlier than February 2026 on a SpaceX Transporter mission.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/03/momentus-and-solstar-partner-on-on-demand-communications-for-space-systems/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=64448 Momentus and Solstar have signed a strategic partnership agreement towards making new ways of operating in space possible. The partnership aims to enable access to on-demand connectivity with their systems in space. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/06/momentus-to-deliver-nine-satellites-to-orbit-for-apogeo-space/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49274 Business Wire reported on the 5th of June that Momentus, a US commercial space company offering orbital transportation and in-space infrastructure services, has signed an agreement with Apogeo Space to provide orbital transportation services for nine satellites. These satellites are part of Apogeo’s planned 100-satellite Internet of Things (IoT) constellation. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/08/momentus-signs-hosted-payload-service-agreement-with-luxspace/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 06:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42847 U.S.-based commercial space company planning to offer in-space infrastructure services, Momentus, signed a service agreement with Luxembourg-based small satellites and space-based applications and services provider, LuxSpace, Momentus said. Hosted payloads are a foundational in-space infrastructure service enabling ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/spacewatchgl-opinion-in-orbit-servicing-2/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:00:09 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=39530 Although the sustainability of all future space activities depends on the development of In-Orbit Servicing (IoS), there is currently no official or universal definition of IoS, sometimes also referred to as in-space services and on-orbit services. The European Space Policy Institute’s In-Orbit Services report mentions that IoS operations comprise mainly three activities]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/06/gilmour-space-secures-e39-million-series-c-funding/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 06:00:49 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=34067&preview=true&preview_id=34067 The Australian launch services company Gilmour Space Technologies has secured a Series C funding round of €39 million from global investors, the company announced, bringing the company’s total funds raised to date to 87 million Australian dollars (€54 million), it said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/05/spacewatchgl-opinion-financing-space-trough-spacs/ Mon, 17 May 2021 08:00:42 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=32744 $15.5 billion is the total initial valuation of nine space companies that went or are planning to go public via SPACs: Virgin Galactic, Momentus, AST & Science, Astra, BlackSky, Velo3D, Redwire, Rocket Lab, and Spire. Silvio Marenco, a former CEO of two SPACs (Glenalta and Glenalta Food), and current advisor of Galileo Acquisition Corporation, defines a SPAC as a listed investment vehicle]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/01/momentus-founder-kokorich-replaced-by-dawn-harms/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=29936&preview=true&preview_id=29936 Momentus founder Kokorich replaced by Dawn Harms]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/space-transport-champion-momentus-to-go-public-through-merger-with-stable-road/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=27032&preview=true&preview_id=27032 Space transport champion Momentus to go public through merger with Stable Road]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/09/made-in-space-europe-and-momentus-to-develop-robotic-spaceflight-mission-for-2022/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=25824&preview=true&preview_id=25824 Made In Space Europe and Momentus to develop robotic spaceflight mission for 2022]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/08/momentus-announces-first-indian-customer-astrogate-labs/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=25051&preview=true&preview_id=25051 Momentus , provider of in-space transportation services for satellites, and Astrogate Labs, a space technology startup from Bengaluru, developing optical communication terminals and a ground network for smallsats, announced a launch service agreement for a 3U satellite to Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), to be launched in December 2021 on the second Vigoride commercial mission, as well as a 6U option.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/momentus-and-orbastro-announce-service-agreement-for-3u-in-orbit-demonstration/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 05:00:34 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23285 Momentus, provider of in-space transportation services for satellites, and OrbAstro, a UK company focused on developing the technology to enable tiny satellites to operate in large flocks, announced on 4 June 2020 a launch contract to fly a 3U to SSO onboard the SpaceX Dedicated rideshare mission in 2021.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/momentus-space-to-launch-iris-a-mission-for-taiwan-based-odysseus-and-ncku-space-laboratory/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 05:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21198 On 1 April 2020, Momentus Space announced they had signed a launch service agreement with ODYSSEUS Space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/spacewatchgl-on-the-road-satellite-2020-a-fitting-start-to-the-decade/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20736 Let’s face it—the 2020s have thus far been weird. Small sample size, various black swan events, cell phones are driving us crazy, these are all true, but it still feels like 2020 is just a little bit weirder than normal, and perhaps more importantly, some of the weirdness is starting to feel like it will not be temporary weirdness.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/09/relativity-space-signs-launch-services-agreement-for-multiple-launches-with-momentus-on-terran-1-worlds-first-3d-printed-rocket/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 05:00:01 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=15956 Relativity Space has signed a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with Momentus, the provider of in-space shuttle services that move satellites between orbits, to launch Momentus’ small and medium satellite customers on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket, the world’s first and only entirely 3D printed rocket]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/07/exolaunch-lines-up-28-small-satellites-for-july-2019-soyuz-launch/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 05:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=15014 Exolaunch has completed a successful payload integration for an upcoming Soyuz launch from the Vostochny launch site. In total, Exolaunch has contracted and integrated for launch 28 commercial and educational satellites from Germany, France, the USA, Israel, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Thailand, Ecuador, the Czech Republic and Estonia. The complete list of smallsats follows.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/02/exolaunch-backs-momentus-vigoride-service-for-bespoke-in-orbit-transportation/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:00:12 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12701 Reaching a desired orbit in space is set to become easier and more cost-effective, as space transportation start-up Momentus is soon to prove with its Vigoride service. German launch service provider, Exolaunch has signed a contract worth over U.S.$6 million with the Momentus to move its CubeSats and Microsatellites into multiple, bespoke orbits. ]]>