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 won a $14,100,000 DARPA contract in 2020 to manufacture four Blackjack satellites with options to build 16 additional small satellites.
ExoTerra Resources expects its thrusters to fly on two Blue Canyon Blackjack satellites scheduled to launch in 2022.
Blue Canyon Technologies selected ExoTerra Resources to provide electric propulsion for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Blackjack Phase 2 and Phase 3 satellites.
DARPA has ordered 10 satellite buses from Blue Canyon Technologies for the Blackjack program.
Blue Canyon Technologies won an order for four contracts in June 2020 related to DARPA’s Blackjack program.
The University of Illinois awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a contract on 2021-05-12 to build two six-unit cubesats for a space science mission funded by the National Science Foundation.
Raytheon Technologies acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in December 2020.
Under the contract announced 2021-05-12, Blue Canyon Technologies will provide a pair of six-unit cubesat buses plus an engineering development unit for the VISORS mission.
Blue Canyon Technologies is scheduled to deliver cubesats to the Georgia Institute of Technology for instrument integration in 2022.
Blue Canyon Technologies provides satellite buses for the Blackjack program.
DARPA has ordered 10 spacecraft buses from Blue Canyon Technologies.
Raytheon Technologies acquired small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies in 2020.
DARPA has ordered 10 satellite buses so far from Blue Canyon Technologies for the Blackjack program.
DARPA has ordered 10 satellite buses for Blackjack from Blue Canyon Technologies.
Blue Canyon Technologies received a contract option worth $26,500,000 to produce six satellites for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Blue Canyon is developing a custom bus design for DARPA based on its 150-kilogram X-SAT commercial bus.
Blue Canyon will deliver the additional six satellites by the end of 2022.
Blue Canyon Technologies deployed new satellite components on Transporter-1 that it plans to incorporate in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency satellites.
Raytheon Technologies announced plans in November to purchase Blue Canyon Technologies, a small satellite and spacecraft component manufacturer based in Boulder, Colorado.
Raytheon Technologies completed its acquisition of satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies on 2020-12-22.