{"id":59267,"date":"2020-08-05T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/benchmark-space-systems-merges-tech-with-tesseract-signs-green-propulsion-deal-with-spaceflight\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:51:00","slug":"benchmark-space-systems-merges-tech-with-tesseract-signs-green-propulsion-deal-with-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/benchmark-space-systems-merges-tech-with-tesseract-signs-green-propulsion-deal-with-spaceflight\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmark Space Systems Merges Tech with Tesseract, Signs Green Propulsion Deal with Spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benchmark Space Systems<\/strong>, an in-space propulsion systems supplier coming off of a recent capital fundraising round of more than $3 million, has just secured technology partnerships with <strong>Tesseract Space<\/strong> and <strong>Spaceflight Inc.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under a permanent licensing partnership, Benchmark will integrate Tesseract Space intellectual property, assets, and staff to expand the development, deployment and support of its non-toxic chemical propulsion solutions for global rideshare markets. Benchmark said the move would make the company more agile in meeting market demand for green, launch vehicle-agnostic thrusters and services supporting 1U CubeSats through ESPA-class (1-to-500kg small satellites), large lunar landers, and orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting into orbit quickly, affordably and safely is the top priority for small satellite missions looking to start generating revenue within days, not months of their launch into space. Benchmark Space Systems has the leading-edge non-toxic chemical propulsion and support solutions to make that happen,\u201d said Tesseract Co-Founder Erik Franks, who will now join Benchmark\u2019s leadership team. \u201cRideshare and OTV competition is a huge catalyst for propulsion market growth, and Benchmark is well ahead of the curve with required green solutions that far exceed the performance of electric propulsion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark also confirmed an exclusive services agreement with rideshare launcher Spaceflight Inc. to provide a full range of non-toxic chemical propulsion solutions for Spaceflight\u2019s next-generation Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs), including the Sherpa FX vehicle Spaceflight unveiled last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy exclusively adding Benchmark\u2019s reliable, green in-space propulsion systems to our portfolio of powered Sherpa vehicles, we can cost-effectively deliver our customers\u2019 spacecraft to optimal orbits with greater precision, and then rapidly deorbit. That\u2019s good for everyone \u2013 including the environment,\u201d said Curt Blake, Spaceflight president and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark\u2019s new Halcyon propulsion system will debut aboard two small satellites scheduled to launch aboard a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 in December. Benchmark will also demonstrate its Starling thruster (formerly DFAST) aboard a 3U small satellite set to liftoff with<strong> Firefly Aerospace<\/strong> on the inaugural Alpha flight in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benchmark Space Systems, an in-space propulsion systems supplier coming off of a recent capital fundraising round of more than $3 million, has just secured technology partnerships with Tesseract Space and Spaceflight Inc.&nbsp; Under a permanent licensing partnership, Benchmark will integrate Tesseract Space intellectual property, assets, and staff to expand the development, deployment and support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59268,"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-59267","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\/59267"}],"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=59267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}