Momentus prepares to host 10 demonstration payloads on Vigoride 7 flight
SAN FRANCISCO – Momentus' Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle is at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of a 10-month mission to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations, robotic in-space assembly, advanced communications and computing technologies.
The Vigoride 7 mission with 10 hosted payloads has been integrated with a launch plate that will be sent into orbit on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-16 rideshare no earlier than March 29.
"The thing all these payloads have in common is they're all at the leading edge of new space technology," Momentus CEO John Rood told SpaceNew. "Vigoride is a flexible platform that can support many activities in a cost-effective, innovative way."
With Vigoride 7, the vehicle's first flight since 2023, Momentus will fly payloads for NASA, the Defense Advanced Projects Agency, Air Force Research Laboratory, SpaceWERX, Portal Space Systems, Orbit Fab, CisLunar Industries, DPhi Space and Solstar Space.
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The Vigoride 7 payloads will be operated through Momentus' control center in San Jose, California.
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