# Impulse Space: company

Canonical ID: `90becab7-664d-4140-8b1e-2703d1be7e91`

## Key facts

- **Product:** In-space mobility infrastructure: Mira orbital service vehicle, Saiph/Rigel thrusters, Helios kick stage, Mars lander
- **Founder/CEO:** Tom Mueller — SpaceX employee #1 (2002-2020), CTO of Propulsion, lead developer of Merlin/Draco/SuperDraco engines
- **Founded:** 2021, Redondo Beach, California
- **Funding:** Seed $20M (2022, Founders Fund); Seed Extension $10M (2022, Lux Capital); Series A $45M (2023, RTX Ventures lead); Series D $500M (2026, $4.26B valuation)
- **Board:** General John W. Raymond (ret.) — joined Feb 2024; inaugural Chief of Space Operations, US Space Force
- **Partners:** Relativity Space (Mars mission); Vast Space (Haven-1 propulsion); Anduril (space-based interceptors)
- **Contracts:** Two SBIR awards via SpaceWERX Tactically Responsive Space Challenge (2023)
- **Patents:** Honest-absence: no USPTO patents found under Impulse Space assignee name (proprietary propulsion tech reported as in-house development; may hold patents under subsidiary or in pre-publication phase)

- **Slug:** impulse-space
- **Status:** private (venture-backed)
- **Founded:** 2021
- **HQ:** Redondo Beach, California, USA

## Models

- [Mars Lander](/models/mars-lander.md) (space) (id: `3a98969b-7cc5-482e-ad98-10fa747777c1`)
- [Deneb](/models/deneb.md) (space) (id: `85990b77-cdee-4607-92f3-79cacf486563`)
- [Rigel](/models/rigel.md) (space) (id: `e80a98cd-5913-489c-b124-c1cbda1c0b1e`)
- [Saiph](/models/saiph.md) (space) (id: `adf79eb5-3b0e-404f-8564-c7c5bcebd962`)
- [Helios](/models/helios.md) (space) (id: `29eaa53c-0c80-4c11-bc35-5adf73c33116`)
- [Mira](/models/mira.md) (space) (id: `c2f5f6ac-c93f-4250-8b20-f4cfd9806de2`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Tom Mueller](/people/tom-mueller.md) Founder and CEO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Tom Mueller](/people/tom-mueller.md)

## Board (1)

- [John W. Raymond](/people/john-w-raymond.md) director

## Supplies to

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## Sources (1)

1. https://www.impulsespace.com/

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