New anti-collision tech for satellites revealed

 

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Benchmark Space Systems has unveiled its new Collision Avoidance Kit (ColA) thruster package for satellites. As the name suggests, this package is intended to aid commercial and research satellites in avoiding the large amount of debris drifting in Earth's orbit.

Due to being fueled by hydrogen peroxide, ColA allows for much quicker emergency manuevers than electronic propulsion and comes in four sizes depending on the mission profiles of prospective clients.

"They are flying these high cost, high value assets, but they have this vulnerability to them that's just not acceptable," Benchmark executive vice president of business and strategy Chris Carella told SpaceNexus in an interview.

Benchmark is set to begin shipping ColA to clients in early 2023.