Two NASA contracts in three days put a small platform provider at the heart of two big ideas: in-space manufacturing and a radical engine class that could reshape propulsion.
Over forty-eight hours at the end of September, NASA quietly handed Momentus two very different missions. One is about making valuable materials in orbit. The other is about firing a rocket engine that works in a new way. Together they hint at a simple shift: NASA increasingly wants hosted, orbital testbeds it can rent on demand, rather than bespoke satellites for every experiment.
On 26 September,
