Impulse space is expanding farther into space.

The startup has two mirror space tugs in low Earth orbit.

This fall, an upgraded spacecraft capable of going to geosynchronous orbit will launch, establishing

a new market.

It's a super important orbit.

There's a lot of government things happening up there.

There's a lot of commercial, civil up there. There's a lot of, you know,

commercial, civil and government things that happen up there. Medium Earth orbit, too.

So Mira is now capable of going to basically anywhere in the solar system.

Tom Mueller was a founding member of SpaceX, employee number one, where his work on propulsion helped crack the code on reusable rocket engines.

He founded Impulse Space in 2021 to offer in-space mobility, think transportation and services

for satellites in orbit. It's a big bet on the future he believes SpaceX will help unlock.

That's why I founded Impulse, really based on the premise of Starship, which is really

the next step in reducing cost and increasing access to space.

When that thing becomes fully reusable and can take over 100 tons to lower orbit every time it flies,

I think that's really, I always say, the start of

the Truder Space Age, where it's so easy to get to space at that point. Now, what are the,

what are the killer apps that we're going to come up with that we need to move those things

around in space? And that's what I'm here for is to, for that future. Impulse recently raised $300 million in a Series C funding round to hire more people,

develop more products, and produce more of its Mira and Helios spacecraft.

On this episode, Impulse is Mueller, on the space age, and whether an IPO is in the stars.

I'm Morgan Brennan, and this is Manifest Space.

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