{"id":57513,"date":"2021-05-19T21:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/starfish-space-and-benchmark-to-demonstrate-on-orbit-refueling-and-docking\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:27:05","slug":"starfish-space-and-benchmark-to-demonstrate-on-orbit-refueling-and-docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/starfish-space-and-benchmark-to-demonstrate-on-orbit-refueling-and-docking\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfish Space and Benchmark to Demonstrate On-Orbit Refueling and Docking"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Starfish Space<\/b> and <b>Benchmark<\/b> <b>Space Systems<\/b> have reached an agreement to test on-orbit refuelling and docking capabilities during the <b>Orbit Fab<\/b> Tanker 1 mission that launches next month. This is part of an agreement between the companies announced Tuesday to collaborate on on-orbit servicing technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starfish Space is a satellite servicing company, and Benchmark provides in-space mobility systems and services. Starfish is integrating and testing its CEPHALOPOD software which performs Rendezvous, Proximity Operations and Docking (RPOD), with Benchmark\u2019s hydrogen peroxide-fueled Halcyon thruster. This Benchmark thruster is the primary propulsion system for Orbit Fab\u2019s fuel depot spacecraft, which it calls a \u201cgas station in space.\u201d Orbit Fab\u2019s spacecraft is built by Astro Digital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Orbit Fab mission will establish flight heritage for both the CEPHALOPOD software and the Halcyon thruster. The mission is set to launch on a <b>SpaceX<\/b> Falcon 9 rocket next month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collaboration between Benchmark Space Systems and Starfish Space is all about leveraging our complementary strengths to drive toward precision on-orbit maneuvers that open the door to exciting new possibilities for the emerging space economy,\u201d said Ryan McDevitt, Benchmark Space Systems CEO. \u201cThese in-space maneuvers and simulated refueling docking demonstrations with Orbit Fab will mark Benchmark\u2019s flight heritage, advancement toward our RPO chipset offerings, and the pivotal role we\u2019re playing in providing spacecraft control authority and extending missions in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starfish Space and Benchmark Space Systems have reached an agreement to test on-orbit refuelling and docking capabilities during the Orbit Fab Tanker 1 mission that launches next month. This is part of an agreement between the companies announced Tuesday to collaborate on on-orbit servicing technologies.&nbsp; Starfish Space is a satellite servicing company, and Benchmark provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}