Impulse Space's Mira spacecraft. Credit: Impulse Space
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Space Force has added $28 million to an existing contract with Impulse Space to provide two more maneuverable spacecraft for tactically responsive space missions, expanding the startup’s role in an effort to give military operators faster options for responding to activity in orbit.
The contract modification will fund Victus Salo 2 and Victus Salo 3, which will use Impulse’s Mira spacecraft to host government-provided payloads for missions in low Earth orbit, according to the Space Force.
The award increases the value of the contract to about $62.8 million. The original $34.8 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 agreement, awarded in 2024 by Space Systems Command’s Space Safari office in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit, covered the Victus Surgo and Victus Salo 1 missions.
Victus Salo is part of the Space Force’s broader Tactically Responsive Space, or TacRS, effort to shorten the time needed to deploy and operate spacecraft.
