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Benchmark Space Systems Fires Up Metal Plasma and Bi-Prop Thruster Production, Realigns Senior Executive Team to Deliver on Intensifying Hybrid Propulsion System Demand

Laser focused on delivering mobility without compromise, Benchmark Space Systems today announced it has signed contracts for nearly two dozen new electric metal plasma thrusters (MPTs), with some set ...
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Benchmark Space Systems Wins Second Air Force Research Lab Contract

Tapped to help U.S. defense agencies deploy safer propellant alternatives to hydrazine, Benchmark Space Systems today announced a two-year, $2.81 million AFRL SPRINT (Space Propulsion Research and ...
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Benchmark Space Systems Announces First “Autopilot” for Satellite Maneuvers

NASA rendering of a satellite propulsion system. Image credit: NASA. Burlington, Vermont-based Benchmark Space Systems made a pair of key announcements on August 9th. The first announcement was that ...
VTDigger

Benchmark Space Systems in Burlington rides boom in small satellites

Ryan McDevitt, founder of Benchmark Space Systems, with a temperature-controlled chamber that mimics extreme temperatures satellites are subject to as they orbit around the earth, depending on whether ...
TechCrunch

Benchmark Space Systems and Starfish Space team up to advance orbital docking and refueling

Humans may not have totally mastered getting objects to space, but we’ve done a pretty good job so far. The hundreds of satellites that orbit the Earth are proof enough that “send stuff to space” is ...