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Benchmark Space Systems’ scalable, launch-vehicle-agnostic propulsion product and services suite supports spacecraft ranging from 1U cubesats through ESPA-class (1–500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.
Benchmark’s Halcyon Avant system provides a 25% increase in fuel efficiency compared with state-of-the-art green monopropellants while using low-cost and readily available propellants.
Benchmark Space Systems is developing smaller scaled Halcyon Avant systems for commercial and government smallsat missions in several system configurations that are scheduled to be in space before 2022 ends.
Benchmark Space Systems positions its propulsion suite as offering far safer and faster rideshare options than electric propulsion systems, which can take months to complete trips to orbit.
Benchmark Space Systems is developing smaller scaled Halcyon Avant systems for commercial and government microsatellite missions with several configurations scheduled to be in space before the end of 2022.
Benchmark Space Systems plans to increase the Halcyon Avant system specific impulse to 315–320 seconds to make it best in class compared with existing systems.
Benchmark Space Systems announced on 2021-12-21 that the propulsion system for the Sherpa-LTC tug had been installed and fueled.
Benchmark Space Systems’ propulsion product and services suite supports spacecraft ranging from 1U CubeSats through ESPA-class (1–500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.
Benchmark’s Halcyon high-test peroxide (HTP)-based monopropellant system performed recent mission-critical maneuvers across three satellites as part of the Halcyon heritage campaign that reached orbit on Transporter 2.
Benchmark Space Systems completed hot fire engine tests of its Halcyon Avant non-toxic chemical propulsion system at its Pleasanton, California facility in November 2021.
Benchmark Space Systems doubled its size during the year to 40 employees across its Burlington, Vermont headquarters and a test site in California.
Benchmark Space Systems’ Halcyon Avant thrusters provide improved performance compared with the hydrogen peroxide monopropellant thrusters the company previously developed and flew on several satellites.
Benchmark Space Systems had seven missions using its thrusters in the pipeline for 2022 with the possibility of that growing to 10 to 15 missions as new commercial and government customers sign up.
About a month after initial deployment and commissioning, Sherpa-LTC1 will use a bipropellant green propulsion subsystem from Benchmark Space Systems to maneuver to 500 km and deploy four additional cubesats.
An independent evaluation by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) commissioned by the FCC found that Pinnacle 911 delivered ±3 m 94% of the time, exceeding the FCC’s 80% benchmark.
Benchmark Space Systems offers the Halcyon Avant thruster that can operate with several types of fuel depending on the operation or satellite bus.
Benchmark Space Systems is working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and industry partners to develop a multimode electric-chemical engine that uses a common propellant tank.
Accion Systems and Benchmark Space Systems had their first thrusters reach orbit on 2021-06-30 on satellites launched as rideshares on the SpaceX Transporter-2 flight.
The Locus Charter was publicly launched in March 2021 following a multi-year strategic partnership between the American Geographical Society’s EthicalGEO and the Benchmark Initiative hosted at Ordnance Survey’s Geovation.
Benchmark’s scalable, launch-vehicle-agnostic propulsion products and services support spacecraft ranging from 1U CubeSats through ESPA-class (1–500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.