{"id":1202615,"date":"2023-11-13T17:07:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202615"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:07:31","slug":"impulse-space-appears-to-succeed-with-its-first-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202615","title":{"rendered":"Impulse Space appears to succeed with its first spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"A close-up view of the Mira orbiting vehicle.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/6b52b2348c6c7e9429c17d645b31165a525c514b-3436x2158-1-scaled.webp\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1608\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A close-up view of the Mira orbiting vehicle. (credit: Impulse Space)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SpaceX launched its ninth &#8220;Transporter&#8221; mission on Saturday from California, carrying dozens of small- and medium-sized satellites into low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The upside of these launches for customers is that they can rely on regular, low-cost access to space aboard the reliable Falcon 9 rocket. The downside is that the satellites are all released into a basic orbit, and if they want to reach a different altitude or inclination, they have to bring their own propulsion along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to the advent of &#8220;last mile&#8221; services from various companies offering small add-on spacecraft capable of providing in-space propulsion. One of the most intriguing of these is Impulse Space, a company founded two years ago by rocket scientist Tom Mueller, who was a founding employee at SpaceX before leaving in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983306#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983306&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impulse Space appears to succeed with its first spacecraft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A close-up view of the Mira orbiting vehicle. (credit: Impulse Space) SpaceX launched its ninth &#8220;Transporter&#8221; mission on Saturday from California, carrying dozens of small- and medium-sized satellites into low-Earth orbit. The upside of these launches for customers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1202615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}