El Camino Real Satellite - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft	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
Organization	Momentus
Institution	Company
Entity	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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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)

Last modified: 2023-06-03