{"id":49093,"date":"2025-05-29T00:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/portal-space-systems-to-fly-on-orbit-demo-on-momentus-vehicle\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T00:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:09:01","slug":"portal-space-systems-to-fly-on-orbit-demo-on-momentus-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/portal-space-systems-to-fly-on-orbit-demo-on-momentus-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal Space Systems to Fly On-Orbit Demo on Momentus Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Portal Space Systems<\/b> will fly its first on-orbit demonstration on a <b>Momentus<\/b> orbital service vehicle in a mission set to launch in early 2026, Momentus announced Wednesday. This mission will validate Portal\u2019s flight computer, avionics and flight software in space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portal Space Systems, founded by former SpaceX VP of Propulsion, Jeff Thornburg, is building toward a full-scale demonstration of its Supernova multi-role, transorbital spacecraft. Portal recently raised $17.5 million in a seed funding round.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn-space validation is the cornerstone of de-risking space systems, especially when you\u2019re building a spacecraft like Supernova that has to think, act and react across transorbital domains,\u201d said Jeff Thornburg, CEO and co-founder of Portal Space Systems. \u201cThis mission lets us iterate and advance faster, and we\u2019re thrilled to be flying alongside some of the most ambitious payloads in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Momentus will also host several other payloads from the U.S. Defense Department and commercial customers on the Momentus Vigoride 7 mission, which will launch on a SpaceX Transporter mission to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portal Space Systems will fly its first on-orbit demonstration on a Momentus orbital service vehicle in a mission set to launch in early 2026, Momentus announced Wednesday. This mission will validate Portal\u2019s flight computer, avionics and flight software in space.&nbsp; Portal Space Systems, founded by former SpaceX VP of Propulsion, Jeff Thornburg, is building toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49094,"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":[],"class_list":["post-49093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49093"}],"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=49093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}