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Mission

To make space more accessible and sustainable by providing world-class in-space mobility solutions to our customers and partners

Accessible
Space is a natural resource that should be available for the good of all humanity.
Sustainable
We believe in a sustainable in-space ecosystem that will require deep partnerships with like-minded businesses to achieve.
In-Space Mobility
Mobility is enabled through hardware, software and services, allowing for safe and reliable movement in space.
Facilities

Benchmark Space Systems operates out of our headquarters on Lake Champlain in Burlington, VT and a research and development facility in Pleasanton, CA.

Benchmark’s Vermont headquarters contains a full set of dynamic environment and thermal-vacuum test equipment and cleanroom, capable of qualifying hardware in vibration and thermal/vacuum to F9 RPUG levels.  

Specialties:

Burlington, VT - Systems engineering, analysis, test production of cubesat and microsat products, quality and supply chain management

Pleasanton, CA - Production of ESPA and OTV products, technology development, hot-fire test facility

Capabilities

- ISO Class 7 Cleanrooms

- Laminar Flow Hoods

- ESD S20.20 Compliant Workstations

- Component Cleaning and Passivation Lab

-Thermal vacuum chamber  
     -Vacuum level capability of 10-7 Torr
     -Temperature range of -40 to 80 Celsius

-Vacuum Chamber Hot-Fire Thrust Stand
     -Thrust level capability of 10 mN to 3 N
     -Vacuum level capability of 10-3 Torr

-Environmental Chambers
     -Temperature range of -40 to 150 Celsius

-Helium Leak Detectors

-Pressure Vessel Proof & Burst Test Station

-Electronics and Software Test Bench
     -Automated software testing
     -Temperature
     -Mass and volumetric flow rate
     -Pressure

-Pneumatic Pressure Test Station
     -Pressures up to 10,000psi

-Ambient Hot-Fire Test Stands (2)
     -Thrust level capability of 1N to 450N



 

- Finite Element Analysis  
     - ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise
     - SolidWorks Simulation

- Computational Fluid Dynamics
     - ANSYS Fluent
     - SolidWorks Flow Simulation

- COMSOL Multiphysics

- In-house modeling and simulation codes

- Thermal Desktop
    - FloCAD
    - RadCAD

- IPC-A-610
- J-STD-001
- IPC/WHMA-A-620

Vermont

California

Expert Leadership Team

Chief Executive Officer
Wesley Grove
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Ryan McDevitt
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Matt Shea
Chief Engineer
Mark McElroy
Executive Vice President of Mission Success
Peter Woodson
Vice President of Electric Propulsion
Kent Frankovich
Vice President, Supply Chain
Peder Nilsson
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