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Tom Mueller leaves SpaceX to start Impulse Space, a venture to build orbital transfer vehicles

Impulse Space

Tom Mueller, the principal engineer of SpaceX's Merlin and Draco rocket engines and company employee No. 1, founded Impulse Space to build dedicated orbital transfer vehicles—space tugs that move satellites between orbits after launch. Mueller identified a $10B+ market for routine in-space logistics that no major launch provider was optimizing for.

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