{"id":54186,"date":"2023-01-13T23:33:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/impulse-space-books-first-mission-leo-express-1-on-2023-spacex-rideshare-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T23:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:33:35","slug":"impulse-space-books-first-mission-leo-express-1-on-2023-spacex-rideshare-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/impulse-space-books-first-mission-leo-express-1-on-2023-spacex-rideshare-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Impulse Space Books First Mission, LEO Express-1, on 2023 SpaceX Rideshare Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Impulse Space<\/b>, an in-space transportation company founded by <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> founding member Tom Mueller, recently announced its first orbital mission, LEO Express-1, is booked for a slot on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-9 rideshare mission set for the fourth quarter of this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LEO Express-1 will test the company\u2019s orbital service vehicle, named Mira. The vehicle will uses high-thrust chemical propulsion and is designed to provide last-mile orbital payload delivery, payload hosting, very low altitude maneuvers, and controlled atmospheric re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>The mission has an undisclosed primary payload, but Impulse Space said there is room for additional secondary payload customers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is thrilled to announce LEO Express-1 as our first mission and the implications it brings to affordable space access,\u201d says Impulse Space Founder and CEO Tom Mueller. \u201cCurrently, smallsat operators with custom orbit requirements need to pay a premium or compromise their spacecraft designs to include additional on-board propulsion capability. Impulse\u2019s LEO Express missions will provide the industry with a reliable, rapid and consistent service for precisely delivering payloads to custom orbits in Low-Earth Orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company has raised $30 million after a seed funding round and investment from Lux Capital in 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impulse Space, an in-space transportation company founded by SpaceX founding member Tom Mueller, recently announced its first orbital mission, LEO Express-1, is booked for a slot on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-9 rideshare mission set for the fourth quarter of this year.&nbsp; LEO Express-1 will test the company\u2019s orbital service vehicle, named Mira. The vehicle will uses high-thrust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53047,"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-54186","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\/54186"}],"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=54186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}