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Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, announced it has been awarded a Firm Fixed-Price (FFP), Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 contract by the United States Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command. The award provides an on-ramp for Impulse to become a launch services provider, via the Helios upper stage, for the U.S. Space Force.<\/p>\n
The NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 contract enables commercial-like launch services for more risk-tolerant missions. After completing an initial capabilities assessment and developing a tailored mission assurance approach, Impulse will join a pool of vendors eligible to bid for future launch contracts for national security missions.<\/p>\n
The contract is awarded for Impulse\u2019s Helios vehicle, a high-energy upper stage that transports payloads from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to high-energy orbits like Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) in less than one day in partnership with a medium-lift launch vehicle provider. Historically, NSSL prime contractors have been rocket launch providers; Impulse is the first upper-stage provider to serve as a prime in the program.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis award is a big validation of the capabilities we\u2019re delivering at Impulse, and we\u2019re honored to support national security objectives for our country,\u201d said Eric Romo, President and COO of Impulse Space.<\/strong> \u201cPairing Helios with a standard medium-lift <\/em>launch vehicle<\/em> offers a more operationally flexible and cost-effective path to high-energy orbits than other solutions. We look forward to providing a new option for assured access to space for the Space Force.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As part of the award, Impulse will receive a $5 million FFP Task Order for the initial phases of on-ramping. Helios is currently advancing through development milestones ahead of its first launch in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impulse Space, the in-space mobility leader, announced it has been awarded a Firm Fixed-Price (FFP), Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 contract by the United States Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command. The award provides an on-ramp for Impulse to become a launch services provider, via the Helios upper stage, for the U.S. Space Force. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-34334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}