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Impulse Space Awarded $60M STRATFI Contract for Helios Development

Aug 27, 2024•almost 2 years ago

Contract Type

contract

Redondo BeachOtherTransportationLogistics

Description

Impulse Space has been selected by SpaceWERX to receive a STRATFI award of $60 million from a combination of government, SBIR, and private funds. The award is intended to support the development of Helios, a high-performance kick stage designed to address challenges in geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) for the Department of the Air Force.

Company Information

Company

Impulse Space

Location

2651 Manhattan Beach Blvd

Redondo Beach, California, United States

About

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers from LEO to GEO. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

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