{"id":58356,"date":"2021-01-05T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/momentus-pushes-back-first-launch-of-vigoride-vehicle-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:59:24","slug":"momentus-pushes-back-first-launch-of-vigoride-vehicle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/momentus-pushes-back-first-launch-of-vigoride-vehicle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentus Pushes Back First Launch of Vigoride Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Momentus<\/b> has pulled its Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle from the upcoming <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Transporter 1 Falcon 9 launch set for Jan. 14, to allow for more time for <strong>FAA<\/strong> approval of its spacecraft. The company announced Monday that the mission will be manifested to a subsequent SpaceX launch in 2021. The Vigoride is an in-orbit transport vehicle and its first launch will be a demonstration mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move will allow for the additional time necessary to secure <b>FAA<\/b> approval of Momentus\u2019 payloads, including completion of a standard interagency review. Momentus currently holds all other necessary licenses for its Vigoride vehicle,\u201d the company said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Momentus is in the midst of approvals for a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) <b>Stable Road Acquisition Corp.<\/b>, through which Momentus will become a publicly traded company. The company said Jan. 4 that the deal remains on target to close in the first quarter of 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Momentus President Dr. Fred Kennedy said in a release that with this delay, the company still expects to achieve its revenue expectations for 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momentus has pulled its Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle from the upcoming SpaceX Transporter 1 Falcon 9 launch set for Jan. 14, to allow for more time for FAA approval of its spacecraft. The company announced Monday that the mission will be manifested to a subsequent SpaceX launch in 2021. The Vigoride is an in-orbit transport [&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-58356","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\/58356"}],"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=58356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58356\/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=58356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}