Co-founder and CEO Ryan McDevitt introduces Benchmark Space Systems to Hula. As a UVM alumni, McDevitt is commercializing his phD research in micro-propulsion for small satelites and giving back to the UVM community. The company was founded in 2017 and built in Vermont. As he shares in the video, space equipment requires vigorous--and expensive--testing. The University of Vermont had the testing hardware that would otherwise be very expensive, such as a thermal vaccuum chamber and vibration tables. Now, Benchmark Space Systems pays the students back by sharing some of their own equipment that is not available on campus.

This summer, the company's hardware went to space for the first time. Watch this milestone from Hula!