Impulse Space will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 for first mission late

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Impulse Space will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 for first mission later this year
Aria Alamalhodaei
@breadfrom / 5:20 PM CST January 4, 2023

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/04/impulse-space-will-hitch-a-ride-on-spacexs-transporter-9-for-first-mission-later-this-year/

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Impulse has also raised a notable amount of capital — including $20 million from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and $10 million from Lux Capital — and has swelled to about 60 employees, with nearly a third joining in the past six months. To top it all off, the company announced last summer that it was teaming up with Relativity Space for a very ambitious mission to Mars — yes, Mars — as early as 2024.


But before Mars, Impulse will send its first orbital service vehicle to space to test its propulsion, payload delivery and hosting, software, communications, and maneuvering capabilities. That spacecraft, called Mira, will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 ride-share mission in the fourth quarter of this year, the company announced today.

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