Anduril Industries has announced a strategic partnership with Impulse Space, a Redondo Beach-based provider of agile and cost-effective in space transportation services, to further enable rapid development and delivery of integrated space systems to high-energy orbits for the United States and Allies.
The partnership combines Impulse Space’s expertise in highly maneuverable, high-energy spacecraft with Anduril’s core competencies in mission autonomy, edge processing, infrared imaging, command and control, and other autonomous technologies. Under the partnership, Impulse will provide its highly-maneuverable Mira vehicle to Anduril, allowing the two companies to move rapidly in pursuit of complex national security missions. Impulse Space will also onboard Mira into Lattice, Anduril’s AI-enabled software platform, to enable autonomous monitoring and mission management. Lattice will allow a single operator to control, task, and maneuver multiple spacecraft simultaneously, accelerating in-space mobility for national security customers and enhancing responsiveness in increasingly contested orbital environments, including geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).
As a mission systems integrator, Anduril will integrate its own payloads and other industry partner systems onto Impulse’s Mira spacecraft to support national security mission requirements. Together, Anduril and Impulse will merge best-of-breed technologies from across the commercial and defense industrial base to rapidly deliver integrated, impactful, and operational systems for complex missions including Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO), Space Control, and other Space Domain Awareness (SDA) applications in high-energy orbits.
The announcement follows significant milestones for both companies, including Impulse Space’s $150M Series B fundraising round, Anduril’s $1.5B Series F fundraising round, and the announcement of Anduril’s Space business. Anduril remains committed to fostering partnerships with leading companies from across the commercial and defense space industries to deliver the most advanced, relevant capabilities to the warfighter on accelerated timelines and at an unprecedented scale.
