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Momentus Chief Executive Officer John Rood Recognized as Connectivity Business Executive to Watch
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) (“Momentus” or the “Company”), a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses,
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nMomentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) (“Momentus” or the “Company”), a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, today announced that Chief Executive Officer John Rood is featured as one of this year’s “Executives to Watch” by Connectivity Business.\n\n\nConnectivity Business News reports that they have carefully curated this year’s “Executives to Watch” list by evaluating candidates they consider market disruptors against rigorous criteria, encompassing their ability to triumph over substantial setbacks, successfully fulfill pivotal contracts, and employ innovative market strategies.\n\n\nRood provided the following quote to Connectivity Business: “At Momentus, we had a vision to quickly mature from a Silicon Valley startup to a high-performing space company enabling our customers to do new things in space in much more affordable ways. It’s been gratifying to see the Momentus team rally to overcome challenges and achieve our objectives, launching our first three Orbital Service Vehicles and deploying 15 customer satellites in a year along with bringing to market a new commercial satellite bus and developing leading-edge technology like our thruster that uses water as a propellant and low-cost solar array that rolls out like a tape measure. I’m so proud of this team and eager to see it scale new heights together in the year ahead.”\n\n\nRecent Momentus business and technology accomplishments include:\n\n\n\nFlying three Vigoride spacecraft in less than one year and deploying 15 customer satellites.\n\n\n\nProviding ongoing hosted payload support to the Caltech Space Solar Power Demonstrator. Caltech reports that its payload recently demonstrated its ability to wirelessly transmit power in space and to beam detectable power to Earth.\n\n\n\nDemonstrating the Company’s sustainable and pioneering Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) in-space propulsion system that uses water as a propellant, and successfully completing an orbital raise of its spacecraft using the MET.\n\n\n\nLaunching an on-orbit demonstration of a new kind of solar array that unrolls like a tape measure and has the goal of lowering vehicle production costs.\n\n\n\nIntroducing the M-1000 satellite bus that leverages proven technology and modularity to provid...