05 February 2019
New plasma-water propulsion rockets to move satellites in space
... to satellites that need moving about in space to a different orbit. The space dial-a-ride service is being offered by Momentus, a small US space start-up firm that is marketing itself as the in-space equivalent of a connecting flight. Its aim, the...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... a merger with a SPAC (Social Capital Hedosophia) in late 2019. Looking ahead in 2021, four Space start-ups – Momentus, Astra, BlackSky and Seraphim portfolio company AST & Science – have already announced their mergers with SPACs...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...-dollar market by 2030 and studies have valued the market from US$3 billion (SpaceTech Partners, 2019) to US$8 billion (Momentus, 2020). Although there are differences in IOS definition, timeframe and underlying market assumptions of these studies...
31 March 2017
Success for SpaceX's first 'flight-proven' launch
...that a next goal would be to significantly shorten the turnaround time for a relaunch – perhaps to just 24hrs – another momentus milestone for SpaceX if it can be achieved. It was remarked that the Falcon 9 relaunched yesterday will be donated to the...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... d'Études Spatiales (CNES), SEIS has surpassed the team's expectations in terms of its sensitivity, but surprisingly, this momentus audible rumbling was not actually the first to be recorded by the seismometer. The instrument’s more sensitive Very...
28 April 2020
Free live webinars for the small space sector during COVID-19 pandemic
... satellites, rockets and other complex hardware products. Since then, companies such as Airbus, Gomspace, DLR, LuxSpace, Momentus and others have become their customers - Jean Koivogui (CEO and Founder @Nexafrik) NEXAFRIKA, startup specialising...
