Applied Aerospace Structures Corporation (AASC) is a privately held company specializing in the fabrication and testing of complex composite and metal-bonded structural assemblies for the aerospace industry. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Stockton, California, AASC offers services including aerospace structures and aircraft parts, and serves both military and commercial applications. The company is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100 Rev D standards. AASC's products include fuel tank assemblies, radomes, satellite bus and payload modules, and space launch vehicle structures.
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Benchmark Space Systems acquired Alameda Applied Sciences Corp.’s (AASC’s) metal plasma thruster technology six months before 2023-03-14.
AASC developed metal plasma thrusters branded as Xantus as part of the acquired electric propulsion technology.
AASC’s metal plasma thrusters have been integrated in a weather satellite that Orion Space is scheduled to launch later 2022 under a U.S. Space Force contract.
Benchmark acquired AASC’s electric propulsion technology following an in-depth global evaluation of leading electric propulsion specialists.
AASC will direct customers who want 50 or 100 Xantus thrusters to Benchmark for fulfillment.
The AASC Metal Plasma Thruster will raise the 12U spacecraft from its injection orbit to its operational orbit in the early mission phase, provide attitude adjustments throughout the mission, and maneuver the spacecraft down to a lower orbit for burn-up at the end of the mission.
A flight-ready AASC Metal Plasma Thruster unit will be delivered to Pumpkin Labs, which was selected by ASTRA to build and integrate the 12U spacecraft bus.
AASC has the capability to manufacture the Metal Plasma Thruster line with short lead times and at a relatively low cost compared to other electric propulsion solutions.
AASC provides a compact, reliable electric propulsion thruster with no moving parts that uses solid metal propellant and a low-voltage power processing unit.
In August 2020, AASC was selected by ASTRA LLC to deliver a flight-ready Metal Plasma Thruster for ASTRA’s EWS Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (RROCI) mission scheduled for launch in early 2022.
AASC provides a compact, reliable electric propulsion thruster with no moving parts that uses solid metal propellant.
AASC was selected by ASTRA LLC to deliver a flight-ready Metal Plasma Thruster (MPT) for ASTRA’s EWS Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (RROCI) mission.