Maritime Launch Services (MLS) will launch up to five Sherpa Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) from Seattle area based Spaceflight Inc. aboard the Ukrainian built Cyclone-4M from Spaceport Nova Scotia as early as 2025.
In a press release Spaceflight Inc. stated that the Sherpa OTVs, used for rideshare customers, will be able to accommodate “CubeSats, smallsats, and large form-factor customer vehicles” on the MLS Cyclone-4M. Spaceflight Inc. has five Sherpa models that accommodate a variety of payloads. The said that “in 2022, Spaceflight successfully launched both its experimental OTVs – Sherpa-AC for hosted payloads, and Sherpa-LTC, which features chemical propulsion. The company …
