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Momentus<\/strong>, a provider company of in-space transportation services, announced that it has been awarded a NASA<\/strong> indefinite-delivery\/indefinite-quantity (ID\/IQ) base contract award with a performance period of five years to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space.<\/p>\n Under the ID\/IQ contract awarded by NASA, Momentus is among 15 companies selected that are eligible to receive task or delivery orders to provide in-space transportation services, including propulsion systems and orbital transfer capabilities, to facilitate the deployment of satellites, payloads, and scientific instruments.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are honored to be selected by NASA for this important opportunity to support the United States\u2019 efforts in space,\u201d said John Rood, CEO of Momentus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The contracts will be managed by NASA\u2019s Flight Opportunities program, in collaboration with the Small Spacecraft Technology program, both part of the agency\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Momentus\u2019 Vigoride vehicle offers flexible and reliable transportation solutions for a wide range of mission profiles at various orbits. The company\u2019s technology includes water plasma thrusters, which are safer and more environmentally friendly than traditional chemical propulsion systems, and flexible solar arrays to allow deployment and retraction of critical power generation capabilities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to collaborating closely with NASA and contributing to the success of their ambitious space programs,\u201d added Rob Schwarz, Momentus\u2019 Chief Technology Officer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Momentus, a provider company of in-space transportation services, announced that it has been awarded a NASA indefinite-delivery\/indefinite-quantity (ID\/IQ) base contract award with a performance period of five years to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space. Under the ID\/IQ contract awarded by NASA, Momentus is among 15 […]<\/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":[206,49,36],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-plasma-thrusters","tag-propulsion-systems","tag-thrusters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602"}],"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=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}