Momentus Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results

November 09, 2021

Momentus Inc. announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021.

“During the third quarter, we took major steps toward our goal of providing the transportation and infrastructure services that will enable people, companies and industries to use space in exciting new ways,” said Momentus Chief Executive John Rood. “We completed our Business Combination with Stable Road, resulting in the public listing of the Company's stock and a meaningful improvement in its liquidity position, added key staff to our executive leadership team and Board of Directors, continued to mature our product in advance of our inaugural mission, progressed on our vehicle fabrication and rigorous ground-testing efforts, settled all outstanding claims with SEC Enforcement, paving the way for us to de-SPAC, and made significant progress toward implementing our National Security Agreement.”

Third Quarter 2021 Business Highlights:

Completed a business combination with Stable Road Acquisition Corporation, which effectively listed the company’s equity on the Nasdaq Global Select Markets stock exchange and bolstered the Company’s liquidity position to fund the next phase of its business plan.

Added key defense and security experience to the executive leadership team including the addition of John C. Rood, former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer as well as the additions of Paul Ney, former General Counsel for the Department of Defense as the Company’s new Chief Legal Officer, and Karen Plonty as the Company’s new Chief Security Officer.

Reconstituted the Board of Directors for effective public company governance including the appointment of Victorino Mercado, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, as the Company’s new Security Director to oversee implementation of the National Security Agreement (NSA) that the Company signed with CFIUS in June.

Made significant progress under new leadership toward NSA implementation. Of the 62 discrete compliance tasks required under the NSA, we have fully implemented the majority and have partially implemented the remaining items.

Refocused product development strategy into actionable steps that will help build a foundation for the future. Step one is to bring our Vigoride vehicle to market as early as possible with the features and reliability we know our customers want. This will be closely followed by a focused expansion of our service offerings as we bring online a reusable version of Vigoride that we think will be able to effectively and economically support customer demands for payload hosting and in-orbit servicing.

Completed the initial assembly and initial system-level functional testing of Vigoride 3 and drafted a plan to address anomalies uncovered by these tests. Remediation and planned rework of some components are ongoing, and the vehicle will soon enter system-level thermal vacuum testing, which is late-stage environmental testing that simulates the environment in space.

Completed performance testing of latest-generation Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) with life testing now underway. So far, the MET has performed as expected during these tests.

Settled all obligations related to the previously-announced repurchase of our co-founders’ shares for $40 million.

Settled all outstanding claims with SEC Enforcement. Subsequent to the close of the quarter, we have fully engaged with an independent compliance consultant as is required by our settlement agreement.

Subsequent to the close of the quarter, we signed a Launch Services Agreement that reserves space for Vigoride on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission, which is targeted for June of 2022. While securing space on the manifest is an important step, our plan to launch in June remains subject to the receipt of licenses and other government approvals, and successful completion of our current efforts to get the system ready for flight.