{"id":118151,"date":"2021-01-07T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T03:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/momentus-delays-first-vigoride-launch"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T03:22:57","slug":"momentus-delays-first-vigoride-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/momentus-delays-first-vigoride-launch","title":{"rendered":"Momentus delays first Vigoride launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/momentus-delays-first-vigoride-launch3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In-space transportation provider Momentus is delaying its first operational mission because of delays completing an interagency review.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 In-space transportation provider Momentus is delaying its first operational mission, which was to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 later this month, because of delays completing an interagency review.<\/p>\n<p>In a Jan. 4 statement, Momentus said the flight of its first Vigoride tug, which was to be part of the payloads on a Falcon 9 dedicated rideshare mission launching as soon as Jan. 14, will be delayed to later in the year because it was unable to get approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move will allow for the additional time necessary to secure FAA approval of Momentus\u2019 payloads, including completion of a standard interagency review,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-space transportation provider Momentus is delaying its first operational mission because of delays completing an interagency review. WASHINGTON \u2014 In-space transportation provider Momentus is delaying its first operational mission, which was to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 later this month, because of delays completing an interagency review. In a Jan. 4 statement, Momentus said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}