{"id":54887,"date":"2022-08-22T22:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/luxspace-to-fly-leo-hosted-payload-platform-on-momentus-vigoride-otv-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T22:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:55:26","slug":"luxspace-to-fly-leo-hosted-payload-platform-on-momentus-vigoride-otv-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/luxspace-to-fly-leo-hosted-payload-platform-on-momentus-vigoride-otv-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"LuxSpace to Fly LEO Hosted Payload Platform on Momentus Vigoride OTV in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Satellite manufacturer <strong>OHB<\/strong>\u2018s Luxembourg-based subsidiary <strong>LuxSpace<\/strong> announced Monday that it has signed a contract with in-space transportation and infrastructure services company <strong>Momentus<\/strong> to hitch a ride on its Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle next year.<\/p>\n<p>LuxSpace will send its Triton-X small satellite hosted payload platform into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on the Vigoride Orbital Transfer Vehicle during a scheduled in-orbit subsystems demonstration mission. Triton-X is a new line of microsatellites with a launch mass of up to 200 kg aimed at enabling affordable satellite constellations in LEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the launch of Triton-X on Vigoride, LuxSpace is proudly validating in-orbit the ground-breaking capabilities of the main technologies of our Triton-X product line,\u201d LuxSpace CEO Edgar Milic said in the announcement. \u201cAs such, this mission will include a complete Triton-X integrated avionics unit (IAU) together with an advanced communication transceiver and other technologies. Executing this first Triton-X flight on Vigoride gives us the possibility to focus on our key mission objectives and rely on Momentus for other operational tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Financial details of the Momentus contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>LuxSpace has previously launched seven space systems, including the Triton-2\/ESAIL satellite in September 2020 and two satellites under the Triton-1 platform.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, Exotrail, a French space company, teamed up with LuxSpace to collaborate on Triton-X. The two companies integrated ExoMGTM \u2013 cluster2, a configuration of Exotrail\u2019s high thrust and flexible electric propulsion product family, into OHB\u2019s Triton-X Heavy platform.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, the company signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) under the ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecoms System) program for a partnership project on the development and qualification of Triton-X, which is scheduled to be ready for commercial use by mid-2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite manufacturer OHB\u2018s Luxembourg-based subsidiary LuxSpace announced Monday that it has signed a contract with in-space transportation and infrastructure services company Momentus to hitch a ride on its Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle next year. LuxSpace will send its Triton-X small satellite hosted payload platform into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on the Vigoride Orbital Transfer Vehicle during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47608,"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-54887","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\/54887"}],"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=54887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}