El Camino Real Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Satellite	El Camino Real (Momentus X1, MX-1, Momentus Flight Experiment 1)
Form factor	CubeSat
Units or mass	16U
Status	Operational (License extension request in early 2021)
Launched	2019-07-05
NORAD ID	44408
Deployer	EXOpod 12U/16U [Exolaunch]
Launcher	Sojuz
Organisation	Momentus
Institution	Company
Entity type	Commercial
Country	US
Manufacturer	AIVT by Astro Digital
Launch brokerer	Exolaunch
Oneliner	Demonstration of water based microwave electrothermal propulsion.
Description	Flying high performance X-Band (10 GHz) microwave electrothermal thruster with enough water propellant. First 16U CubeSat. MX-1 will flight demonstrate the Vigor microwave electrothermal thruster (MET) that will be the main engine on our Vigoride in-space rocket. MX-1 eliminates the primary technical risk associated with our Vigoride in-space ride service. This delivery was a critical step in preparation for launch which will be on a Soyuz rocket in March of 2019. We developed MX-1 rapidly but methodically, with each component tested at the unit, system, and assembly level to assure success but with no time lost.
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Photo sources	[1] [2]
COTS subsystems	PLATFORM - Astro Digital
Keywords	Propulsion
On the same launch	AmGU-1 (AmurSat) BEESAT-9 BEESAT-10 BEESAT-11 BEESAT-12 BEESAT-13 D-Star One EXOCONNECT D-Star One LightSat El Camino Real JAISAT-1 Lemur-2 100 Morag (FM101, LEMR2126) Lemur-2 101 Wanli (FM102) Lemur-2 102 Yndrd (FM103) Lemur-2 103 EJatta (FM104) Lemur-2 104 DustInTheWind (FM105) Lemur-2 105 Alex-Maddy (FM106) Lemur-2 106 LillyJo (FM107) Lemur-2 107 GregRobinson (FM108) Lucky-7 MOVE-IIb MTCube NSLSat-1 SEAM-2.0 Sokrat SONATE TTU101 UTE-Ecuador VDNH-80 (VDNKh)

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