Accelerating our future beyond Earth #MobilizeSpace
Redondo Beach, CA
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We've raised an additional $308M to continue expanding our team, products, and facilities as we accelerate humanity's future beyond Earth. This raise brings our combined Series D round to $808M, continuing a period of significant growth for our company.
We're scaling because our customers need more than just access to space, they need to be able to move dynamically once they're there. That's why we're building vehicles that can maneuver precisely, respond quickly, reach new destinations, and adapt on orbit.
We're excited to continue building a full spectrum of in-space mobility capabilities for the space industry.
Read the full announcement: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…
Humanity's next chapter on the Moon is taking shape, and Impulse is building the transportation infrastructure to make it possible.
Impulse has been awarded two task orders supporting NASA's Moon Base program, an effort to establish humanity's first permanent lunar outpost. With missions scheduled to begin in 2028, we're bringing our in-space mobility capabilities to one of the greatest challenges in space exploration: building the transportation infrastructure needed for sustained operations around and on the Moon.
With Helios, Mira, and our highly throttleable lunar lander, our fleet is designed to solve logistics challenges in space. With better transportation, lunar exploration will no longer be defined by individual visits but by an enduring human presence on the Moon.
This is the kind of challenge we were founded to solve. We're building the infrastructure that connects humanity's ambitions with the places we have yet to reach.
Read more: aviationweek.com/space/space…
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Next stop: the Moon. 🚀 We’re partnering with @GoToImpulse on a lunar mission for @NASAMoonBase ! Terran R will launch Helios and lander vehicles to orbit for the first leg of the journey towards humanity’s first permanent lunar outpost.
Learn more about the mission: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…
Learn more about NASA Moon Base: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-a…
Ad lunam Impulse! 🚀
We are proud to announce that @NASA has awarded Impulse two missions as part of its Moon Base program, an ambitious effort to establish humanity’s first permanent lunar outpost.
For decades, the Moon has been a place we’ve visited. Now, Impulse is delivering the transportation to make it a place we can call home.
Read more: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…
The future of in-space mobility depends on more than one kind of vehicle.
Mira is our agile, flight-proven spacecraft built for precise payload hosting, deployment, and maneuvering across orbits. Helios is our high-energy kick stage, designed to rapidly transport payloads to high-energy orbits.
Behind these vehicles is our Vehicle Engineering team, responsible for the structures and mechanisms that make each design possible. As our fleet evolves, so do the opportunities to develop new hardware, solve complex problems, and help shape the next generation of spacecraft.
Take your career beyond Earth: impulsespace.com/careers
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More progress on the Helios flight vehicle at our Redondo Beach HQ.
Following the laser welding of the oxidizer and fuel barrels to the common dome, the team removed the tank from the weld cell and transferred it to its integration stand for weld inspections and installation of internal components.
Another milestone in the books. Huge congratulations to the team making it happen! 👏
How do you stay connected to a spacecraft hundreds of thousands of kilometers from Earth? 📡
At Impulse, our RF and EMC org develops the radios, antennas, and supporting systems that connect our spacecraft to Earth, enabling everything from early mission telemetry to high-rate data transmission. It's work that demands close collaboration across disciplines, with engineers encouraged to explore new ideas and help shape the direction of the systems they're building.
When you're surrounded by people who have spent their careers getting spacecraft into orbit, there's no shortage of experience to learn from or new challenges to take on.
Start your RF engineering journey: impulsespace.pinpointhq.com/…
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Last week @GoToImpulse completed our second employee tender offer. The first was last fall, and we were fortunate that our partners at @137ventures supported us again this year.
A tender gives employees an opportunity to sell some of their vested shares – to benefit from the value that they’ve created in Impulse. This opportunity is a testament to our commercial and technical progress, and the result of our team's hard work.
Our goal, “To accelerate our future beyond earth” is not small. Our work is not easy. But our strategy to accomplish it is straightforward:
1) Hire great people
2) Give them ambitious goals
3) Stay the hell out of their way
I’m so glad those great people had a chance to benefit. Now who else wants to come build cool sh 🚀 t?
Rinse and repeat.
Another oxygen tank came together for the Helios flight vehicle at our Redondo Beach HQ. With 300,000 square feet of production, we're scaling Helios to meet market demand for satellites needing to reach GEO. 🛰️
Avionics touches everything. 🛰️
Our Avionics Test team supports every program at Impulse, from the flight computers and networking systems that connect our spacecraft to the hardware and software used to test their flight electronics.
With every design, test, and iteration comes a deeper understanding of the systems we're putting into flight and the opportunity to take on new challenges alongside a team that takes pride in what it builds.
It's an environment where engineers can grow their expertise, take on meaningful responsibility, and contribute to every stage of development.
Explore opportunities at Impulse: impulsespace.com/careers
We're over 24 hours into the mission, and LEO Express 4 continues to operate nominally.
Following separation from Falcon 9, we’ve begun receiving initial data from Mira. The vehicle is healthy, and the team is now moving through commissioning and checkout procedures ahead of planned on-orbit maneuvers.
Follow along for more updates from LEO Express 4: impulsespace.com/updates/leo…
New photo from the launch pad! 🚀
LEO Express 4 launched aboard @SpaceX's Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, manifested through @Exolaunch.
Go Mira!
Photo credit: @SpaceX
Like making fire?🔥
Our propulsion engineers are designing, building, and testing the engines and components that power our spacecraft. From rapid design iterations to flight-proven hardware, the team has the ownership to turn complex engineering challenges into real capability.
At Impulse, your work doesn't stop at the test stand, it makes it to space.
Come build cool sh*t: impulsespace.com/careers
Calling all future pyromaniacs: impulsespace.pinpointhq.com/…
Two missions. Two @SpaceNews_Inc Icon Award finalist honors. 🏆
Impulse was selected as a finalist for the Commercial Space Achievement category alongside @StarfishSpace for the Remora RPO mission. Starfish software autonomously controlled our LEO-2 Mira through a series of maneuvers, bringing it within approximately 1,250 meters of our LEO-1 Mira on orbit. See the mission in action in the video below!
We are also finalists in the Military Space Achievement category for our contract with the USSF for a future Space Force space domain awareness mission. Mira will host a government-furnished optical payload built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory to support SDA for objects located in GEO.
Mira is putting maneuverability at the center of what’s possible in orbit. Congrats to our crew behind the work. Two well-earned honors for the missions we’re bringing to life. 👏
Full list of finalists in the comments.
🔊 Sound on 🔊
You'll never forget your first hot fire.
Come build cool sh*t: impulsespace.pinpointhq.com/…