Momentus' Vigoride orbital servicer is at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of a 10-month mission, which will demonstrate zoom and zoom operations, robotic harvesting in space, advanced communication and computing technologies. The mission will be launched into orbit using a SpaceX Falcon rocket 9 until 29 March of this year.
For reference: Momentus is an American aerospace company (founded in 2017 year), which specializes in orbital logistics, space tugs and cargo transportation services between orbits, delivery of satellites to the required orbits, servicing and placement of payloads.
Vigoride device 7 will bear 10 payloads to demonstrate key orbital maintenance technologies:
- low-cost multispectral proximity and proximity sensors (SpaceWERX),
- equipment for assembling structures in space (DARPA NOM4D),
- joint RPO and formation flight with the NASA R5 imager (NASA Johnson),
- autonomous computing complex for radiation conditions (Portal Space Systems),
- scalable energy delivery system (CisLunar Industries / NASA AFRC),
- Podracer infrared monitoring system (Orbit Fab / Affl),
- intersatellite communication and Space Wi-Fi (Sun stars),
- the Clustergate-2 computing cluster for software testing (DPhi Space).
Vigoride 7 will also produce an additively manufactured fuel tank, designed by Momentus and manufactured by Velo3D.
Source: https://spacenews.com