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Benchmark Space Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in the research, design, and manufacture of propulsion products tailored for the small satellite market. Founded in 2014 and based in South Burlington, Vermont, with an additional office in Burlington, the company provides integrated spacecraft propulsion systems, mobility subsystems, and orbit transfer products. Its offerings are essential for various satellite operations, including orbit insertion, deorbit, collision avoidance, and momentum management. Benchmark Space Systems is focused on delivering low-cost propulsion solutions that utilize a non-toxic, inert chemical, enhancing safety in transport and storage. The company's proprietary resistor jet micro propulsion system combines thruster, propellant storage, and control hardware into a compact package, making it an attractive option for businesses, scientists, and universities looking to utilize small satellites. With the small satellite market projected to grow significantly, Benchmark Space Systems is positioned to play a key role in this sector's development.

Faraday Technology Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and licenses silicon intellectual property and provides ASIC/SoC design services, turnkey production, and related EDA tools. It serves as a silicon IP and system platform provider, offering IP licenses alongside engineering services to support customers in developing custom silicon solutions.

Benchmark Space Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in the research, design, and manufacture of propulsion products tailored for the small satellite market. Founded in 2014 and based in South Burlington, Vermont, with an additional office in Burlington, the company provides integrated spacecraft propulsion systems, mobility subsystems, and orbit transfer products. Its offerings are essential for various satellite operations, including orbit insertion, deorbit, collision avoidance, and momentum management. Benchmark Space Systems is focused on delivering low-cost propulsion solutions that utilize a non-toxic, inert chemical, enhancing safety in transport and storage. The company's proprietary resistor jet micro propulsion system combines thruster, propellant storage, and control hardware into a compact package, making it an attractive option for businesses, scientists, and universities looking to utilize small satellites. With the small satellite market projected to grow significantly, Benchmark Space Systems is positioned to play a key role in this sector's development.

SemiProbe designs and manufactures probing, inspection, and test solutions for semiconductor research and production. Its offerings include manual, semiautomatic, and fully automatic systems with probing capabilities ranging from individual dies to large wafers, plus compact manual systems for dies and up to 200 mm substrates, and wafer inspection in semi-automatic and automatic formats. The company provides specialty probers, PILOT control software with modular DLL-based components, and SPCal software to simplify calibration and measurement, along with custom software solutions. Its products support applications such as automatic vacuum probing, device characterization, failure analysis, HF/microwave testing, known good die, laser microsurgery and trimming, nanotechnology, optoelectronics, PCB and substrate testing, photovoltaics, pin-to-pad alignment, and wafer and die inspection, and address MEMS, MOEMS, and NEMS. SemiProbe serves universities, government research labs, and a broad range of semiconductor companies worldwide, including those developing MEMS, nanotechnology, optoelectronics, and photovoltaics. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Vermont.

Faraday Technology Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and licenses silicon intellectual property and provides ASIC/SoC design services, turnkey production, and related EDA tools. It serves as a silicon IP and system platform provider, offering IP licenses alongside engineering services to support customers in developing custom silicon solutions.