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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DARPA awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $14,100,000 contract in June 2020 to manufacture four Blackjack satellites with options worth $99,000,000 for up to 20 satellites.
The Viasat cubesat has a mass of 23 kg, uses a 12U spacecraft bus from Blue Canyon Technologies, and carries an L-band antenna from Roccor.
DARPA awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $14,100,000 contract in June to build four satellite buses for the Blackjack program.
QEYSSat will use a FlexBus platform provided by Blue Canyon Technologies designed for 100-kilogram-class small satellites.
The $14,100,000 production contract puts Blue Canyon Technologies in a position to become the leading supplier of satellite buses for DARPA’s Blackjack program.
DARPA signed study contracts with other bus providers while Blue Canyon Technologies holds the only production contract for Blackjack.
The Blackjack contract with Blue Canyon Technologies has options for DARPA to buy up to 20 satellites for $99,400,000.
Blue Canyon Technologies will manufacture Blackjack satellites at a new facility in Lafayette, Colorado.
Blue Canyon Technologies is producing four satellite buses for the Blackjack program under a $14,100,000 contract awarded last month by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Blue Canyon transitioned from building a single satellite at a time in a clean room to building multiple satellites at once on production lines, with each production line producing one satellite per week.
Blue Canyon Technologies produces greater than 90% of the components that go into its satellites.
Blue Canyon Technologies opened the Crescent Satellite Constellation manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Colorado on 2020-06-03.
Blue Canyon will continue installing equipment and adding people at the Crescent factory over the next few months, with the facility supporting its first spacecraft builds around September.
Blue Canyon expects the Crescent factory to produce 50 satellites in 2021.
Blue Canyon Technologies can build around 150 satellites per year using its original Boulder plant together with the new Crescent factory.
Blue Canyon Technologies and SA Photonics had previously been selected as part of a pool of Blackjack satellite bus and payload suppliers and had received study contracts.
The contract awarded to Blue Canyon Technologies requires delivery of an undisclosed number of satellite buses by June 2021.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $14,100,000 contract for satellite buses for the Blackjack program on 2020-06-10.
Viasat selected Blue Canyon Technologies to manufacture the 12-unit XVI cubesat and selected Roccor to supply the antenna.
The Space Enterprise Consortium selected Boeing Phantom Works’ subsidiary Millennium Space Systems and Blue Canyon Technologies to develop Tetra smallsat prototypes for experiments in geosynchronous orbit.