Anduril and Impulse Space Partner on Highly-Maneuverable Space Missions
Anduril Industries is announcing a strategic partnership with Impulse Space, a Redondo Beach-based provider of agile and cost-effective space transportation services, to further enable rapid development and delivery of integrated space systems to high-energy orbits for the United States and Allies.
The partnership combines Impulse Space’s highly maneuverable, high-energy spacecraft expertise with Anduril’s core competencies in mission autonomy, edge processing, infrared imaging, command and control, and other autonomous technologies. Under the partnership, Impulse will provide its highly-maneuverable Mira vehicle to Anduril, allowing the two companies to move rapidly in pursuit of complex national security missions. Impulse Space will also onboard Mira into Lattice, Anduril’s AI-enabled software platform, to enable autonomous monitoring and mission management. Lattice will allow a single operator to control, task, and maneuver multiple spacecraft simultaneously, accelerating in-space mobility for national security customers and enhancing responsiveness in increasingly contested orbital environments, including geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).
As a mission systems integrator, Anduril will integrate its payloads and other industry partner systems onto Impulse’s Mira spacecraft to support national security mission requirements. Together, Anduril and Impulse will merge best-of-breed technologies from across the commercial and defense industrial base to rapidly deliver integrated, impactful, and operational systems for complex missions, including Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO), Space Control, and other Space Domain Awareness (SDA) applications in high-energy orbits.
“In-space mobility is incredibly important for a range of national security space missions, including space domain awareness and dynamic space operations,” said Gokul Subramanian, Anduril’s SVP of Space and Engineering. “By combining Impulse Space’s advancements in propulsion and on-demand maneuverability with Anduril’s Lattice software platform and a range of missionized, software-defined payloads, the partnership will bring agility and next-generation capability to some of the most critical missions that the DoD and I.C. face in the space domain.”
“One of our goals at Impulse is to unlock freedom of movement for national security missions that require rapid maneuverability and enhanced agility,” said Eric Romo, COO and President of Impulse Space. “Partnering with Anduril lets us bring these mobility capabilities to a wide range of operations that benefit the United States and allies.”
The announcement follows significant milestones for both companies, including Impulse Space’s $150M Series B fundraising round, Anduril’s $1.5B Series F fundraising round, and the announcement of Anduril’s Space business. Anduril remains committed to fostering partnerships with leading companies from across the commercial and defense space industries to deliver the most advanced, relevant capabilities to the warfighter on accelerated timelines and at an unprecedented scale.
About Impulse Space
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers from LEO to GEO. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.