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Benchmark Space Systems planned to begin offering hybrid chemical-electric propulsion systems.
Slides submitted by Martin Coghill for the San Diego County Water Authority showed leak detection results as of March 2022 that represented a 333% increase over the benchmark of 0.33 leaks per mile.
Benchmark Space Systems will work with U.K. startup Space Forge to develop reusable chemical propulsion systems.
Benchmark is pushing to deliver its first flight propulsion unit for integration at the end of 2022.
Benchmark Space Systems plans to begin producing and shipping propulsion systems to Space Forge in Cardiff, Wales and to other customers throughout the European region later in 2022.
Benchmark Space Systems’ propulsion product and services suite supports spacecraft from 3U CubeSats through ESPA-class (3–500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.
Benchmark is working to secure development of its first test propulsion units in the next two or three months from 2022-05-24.
Benchmark Space Systems opened a manufacturing and testing facility northwest of London at the Westcott Innovation Centre in Aylesbury, England.
Benchmark Space Systems will provide propulsion for ForgeStar-1, Space Forge’s first in-space manufacturing and return demonstration, under a contract announced 2022-05-24.
Over the next 18 months Benchmark Space Systems plans to produce more than 150 propulsion systems for government and commercial satellites destined for low Earth, geostationary, and cislunar orbit.
Benchmark Space Systems now employs 50 people and is on track to hire 20 more by the end of the year and to employ 120 people by mid-2023.
Seven undisclosed government and commercial customers are scheduled to launch missions with Benchmark thrusters in 2022, with many missions including multiple spacecraft.
Benchmark Space Systems plans to build more than 150 propulsion systems over the next eighteen months.
Benchmark Space Systems supports spacecraft ranging from 3U CubeSats through ESPA-class (3-500 kg) satellites, lunar landers, spent launcher stages, and orbital transfer vehicles.
Benchmark Space Systems’ Halcyon high-test peroxide (HTP)-based propulsion system performed mission-critical maneuvers aboard three satellites that reached orbit on SpaceX Transporter 2.
Benchmark Space Systems’ Starling and Halcyon engines feature thrusters with up to 2 newtons of thrust.
Benchmark Space Systems is preparing to open an office in the United Kingdom after signing its first contract there.
Benchmark Space Systems’ larger Halcyon Avant green bipropellant thrusters are built in adjacent assembly areas and delivered to the company’s technology facility in Pleasanton, California.
SpaceX removed a Spaceflight Sherpa tug from the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 rideshare mission in December because the propulsion system provided by Benchmark Space Systems developed a leak.
Benchmark’s Halcyon high-test peroxide (HTP)-based monopropellant system performed recent mission-critical maneuvers and will continue to support government and commercial missions across three satellites as part of the Halcyon heritage campaign that reached orbit on Transporter 2.