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Impulse Space<\/strong>, a company in the development of in-space transportation services, has recently been selected by NASA<\/strong> as one of three new launch service providers for future missions via the agency\u2019s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery\/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract has an ordering period through Feb. 3, 2027, and a maximum total value of $300 million across all VADR contracts.<\/p>\n \u201cSupporting humanity\u2019s advancement in space, including science-focused missions, is our goal at Impulse, which is why we\u2019re proud to be added to the VADR contract<\/em>,\u201d said Impulse Space CEO and founder Tom Mueller.<\/strong><\/strong> \u201cWe look forward to opportunities to support NASA\u2019s vital ongoing work through our in-space transportation services.\u201d<\/p>\n As a provider on the VADR contract, Impulse will focus on the opportunities to deliver payloads across a range of orbits, enhancing NASA\u2019s ability to deploy CubeSats, Class D missions, and other research payloads.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers from LEO to GEO. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impulse Space, a company in the development of in-space transportation services, has recently been selected by NASA as one of three new launch service providers for future missions via the agency\u2019s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery\/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract has an ordering period through Feb. 3, 2027, and a maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,38],"class_list":["post-6499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-leo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499"}],"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=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}