Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), now a part of RTX, is a vertically-integrated spacecraft manufacturer specializing in small satellites and spacecraft systems. They provide turnkey solutions, CubeSats, microsats, components, and subsystems like attitude determination and control systems (ADCS). BCT supports various missions for customers like the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and is known for its cost-efficient, high-performance solutions. Key products include spacecraft buses, star trackers, and reaction wheels.
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Blue Canyon Technologies launched Agile Microsat and HACSSAT 1 and HACSSAT 2 aboard the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission on 2022-05-25.
Blue Canyon Technologies’ X-SAT microsatellite buses carry payloads up to 200 kg and are designed to maximize volume, mass, and power while accommodating a variety of mission types.
Dawn Aerospace, based in the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States, was selected by Blue Canyon Technologies to provide turnkey chemical propulsion systems for the X-SAT Saturn satellite bus.
The Aerospace Corp.’s Slingshot satellite will host 19 different payloads on a 12-unit Blue Canyon cubesat bus.
Slingshot 1 is a small satellite built by Aerospace Corp. on a bus from Blue Canyon Technologies.
The first batch of DARPA’s optical terminals will be delivered this summer for integration with Blackjack satellite buses made by Blue Canyon Technologies and to be ready to launch this fall.
A separate Loft Orbital satellite slated to launch toward the end of 2022 will use a bus supplied by Blue Canyon Technologies.
Loft Orbital is currently flying two condosats with buses built by LeoStella and Blue Canyon Technologies.
Blue Canyon built the satellite bus for YAM-4, which is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Blue Canyon built the satellite bus for the YAM-2 satellite that launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission in June.
Brad Tousley will serve as president of Blue Canyon Technologies, reporting to Kristin Robertson.
Raytheon will build its EWS prototype on a satellite bus made by Blue Canyon Technologies.
DARPA ordered 10 satellite buses for Blackjack from Blue Canyon Technologies and two buses from Telesat.
Blue Canyon Technologies won a $14,600,000 contract to produce a small inspector satellite for operations beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit.
Raytheon Technologies acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in December 2020.
On 2021-11-22, the Air Force Research Laboratory selected Blue Canyon Technologies to develop a satellite under AFRL’s Space Situational Awareness Micro-Satellite Bus program.
Blue Canyon Technologies must deliver by February 2023 a small satellite bus that can operate and maneuver for up to three years in orbits beyond GEO and can support a broad range of payloads.
Raytheon acquired commercial satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies and spacecraft engineering firm SEAKR.
DARPA ordered 10 satellite buses for Blackjack from Blue Canyon Technologies and two satellite buses from Telesat.
In 2020 Blue Canyon Technologies selected Orbion Space Technology to supply electric propulsion for its first four Blackjack satellites.