Company | Benchmark Space Systems

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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.

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

Production Testing Design & Analysis Certifications

- 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

Company History

2017

Benchmark Space Systems founded in S. Burlington, VT

2020

Benchmark acquires Tesseract Space in Bay Area, CA

2021

Halcyon Heritage Mission (s) with 1N monopropellant thrusters launches on SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare mission

2021

Starling Heritage Mission with cold gas propulsion launches on Firefly Alpha-1, does not reach orbit

2022

Halcyon Avant Heritage Mission with four 22N bipropellant thrusters launches aboard SpaceX Starlink 4-20 to propel Spaceflight's Sherpa-LTC 2. Performs 700 km orbit raise.

2022

Benchmark acquires license for Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation's Metal Plasma Thruster technology to incorporate first electric propulsion offering, Xantus

2023

Benchmark expands to 40,000 square-foot HQ with world-class tech and manufacturing capabilities

2024

Xantus Heritage Mission with metal plasma thruster technology launches on SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-10, to propel USSF RROCI-2 Demonstration Mission.

2025

Mission Possible featuring sixteen 22N bipropellant thrusters on the Nyx re-entry capsule, launches on Transporter-14 and splashes down in the Pacific Ocean within hours.

2025 and Beyond

Missions scheduled for 2025 and beyond

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