{"id":50419,"date":"2024-10-01T22:07:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/impulse-space-raises-150m-in-series-b-funding\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:07:59","slug":"impulse-space-raises-150m-in-series-b-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/impulse-space-raises-150m-in-series-b-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Impulse Space Raises $150M In Series B Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impulse Space<\/strong> announced a $150 million Series B funding round on Tuesday to support the production of the company\u2019s Helios and Mira vehicles. Impulse Space is led by Tom Mueller, who was a founding member of SpaceX and designed the Merlin engine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company has attracted the attention of multiple investors. <strong>Founders Fund<\/strong> led the Series B, which also included participation from <strong>Lux Capital<\/strong>, <strong>Spring Tide<\/strong>, <strong>DCVC<\/strong>, <strong>Airbus Ventures<\/strong>, <strong>Alumni Ventures<\/strong>, <strong>Balerion Space Ventures<\/strong>, <strong>RTX Ventures<\/strong>, <strong>Tamarack Global<\/strong>, <strong>137 Ventures<\/strong>, <strong>Elysium<\/strong>, <strong>First Principles Group<\/strong>, <strong>Island Green<\/strong>, <strong>Overmatch<\/strong>, and <strong>Trousdale Ventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company raised a seed funding round in 2022, followed by a $45 million Series A last year. Impulse Space has 140 employees and plans to continue growing its team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s roadmap is focused on improving the in-space transportation infrastructure by supporting rapid maneuverability within and between orbits. It is working toward the launch of its upgraded Mira vehicle, a last-mile orbital transfer and payload hosting vehicle, and the first launch of its Helios kick-stage to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and beyond in 2026.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe satellite market is demanding enhanced maneuverability and rapid on-orbit responsiveness, which requires Impulse Space\u2019s powerful, high delta-v vehicles,\u201d said Scott Nolan, partner at Founders Fund. \u201cTom has built a team with deep expertise innovating on mission-critical technologies, positioning the company to reliably deliver while driving the future of in-space transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>[Listen to Tom Mueller on the On Orbit podcast: To LEO, GEO, and Beyond: A Conversation With Tom Mueller]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impulse Space announced a $150 million Series B funding round on Tuesday to support the production of the company\u2019s Helios and Mira vehicles. Impulse Space is led by Tom Mueller, who was a founding member of SpaceX and designed the Merlin engine.&nbsp; The company has attracted the attention of multiple investors. Founders Fund led the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49125,"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-50419","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\/50419"}],"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=50419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}