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Impulse Space wants to open up far away orbits with Helios kick stage
Impulse Space revealed more details today about its next product, a high-energy kick stage called Helios, that could make getting to geosynchronous orbit cheaper than ever before. The vast majority…
What we’re looking forward to seeing from the space industry in 2024
It was a jaw-dropping year for the space industry, and while we all know by now that progress isn’t linear, we feel pretty confident that 2024 will be even more…
Impulse Space, the space logistics startup headed by founding SpaceX employee Tom Mueller, has closed a new tranche of funding to further develop its line of orbital transportation vehicles. The…
Impulse Space will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 for first mission later this year
In-space transportation startup Impulse Space will head to orbit aboard a SpaceX ride-share mission later this year, as it seeks to prove out its orbital maneuvering and servicing technology for…
In this issue of Max Q: A profile of one of the foremost experts of space propulsion; deep dive into the history of NASA’s Landsat; news from Masten Space
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SpaceX’s CTO of propulsion retired. Now he wants to go to Mars.
Tom Mueller is a self-described race car guy. Upon retiring from his role as CTO of Propulsion at SpaceX in November 2020, he “mostly wanted to go racing and ride dirt bikes and travel,” he said in a recent interview. Mueller, who is 61, was putting behind him a storied career: While at SpaceX, he…
Relativity Space, a 3D-printed rocket startup that’s planning its first orbital test launch this year, said Tuesday that it is planning to send a Mars lander and rover vehicle made…
