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September 17, 2021

Spaceflight

Spaceflight, a leader in global launch services, announced a new mission: “GEO Pathfinder.” As a secondary payload on board Intuitive Machines' IM-2 South Pole Mission, Spaceflight will execute rideshare deployments in trans-lunar orbit, low-lunar orbit and beyond to geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO). Spaceflight will utilize a lunar flyby with its new propulsive transfer vehicle, Sherpa EScape (Sherpa-ES), to deliver a payload from GeoJump, a new company dedicated to providing smallsat rideshare opportunities to GEO, that will also contain an Orbit Fab in-space fueling payload. The mission is slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than Q4 2022. Spaceflight's rideshare missions allow customers to quickly access lunar orbits affordably, and allow customers to reach farther destinations in the solar system. Spaceflight has flown three Sherpa OTVs on two different missions in 2021, successfully deploying all 50 customer spacecraft. Based in Seattle, Spaceflight has successfully launched hundreds of satellites and is a part of the Mitsui & Co. portfolio, operating as an independent, U.S.-based company.




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