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 prepared to open a manufacturing plant in spring 2020 capable of producing multiple cubesats per week.
Blue Canyon Technologies will supply its X-SAT small satellite for Made In Space’s Archinaut One on-orbit manufacturing demonstration mission as of 2020-02-12.
Blue Canyon Technologies will assemble and functionally test X-SAT, its largest satellite bus, prior to delivering it to Made In Space for the Archinaut One mission.
Blue Canyon Technologies plans to open an 80,000-square-foot headquarters and production facility in 2020.
Blue Canyon Technologies is supplying X-SAT to MethaneSAT, a subsidiary of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund, for an environmental monitoring satellite scheduled to launch in 2022.
MethaneSAT will use X-SAT, Blue Canyon Technologies’ largest offered spacecraft bus, to carry a methane-detection payload from Ball Aerospace.
MethaneSAT selected Blue Canyon Technologies to supply the spacecraft platform for its donor-funded satellite.
Loft Orbital is a 30-person startup integrating YAM-2 in house using a satellite bus supplied by Blue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado.
Loft Orbital established a partner network in 2018 that includes satellite manufacturers LeoStella, Maxar Technologies, OHB/LuxSpace, Satrec Initiative, and Blue Canyon Technologies, along with partners in launch, ground communications, and analytics.
Blue Canyon Technologies plans to open an 80,000-square-foot headquarters and production facility in 2020.
Blue Canyon Technologies, a satellite manufacturer based in Boulder, Colorado, is building more than 60 spacecraft for government, commercial, and academic customers.
Blue Canyon Technologies plans to build a 12-unit cubesat bus equipped with Viasat’s Link 16 terminal to launch in 2020.
Blue Canyon Technologies currently operates five satellite missions and plans to begin 12 more missions in 2020.
Blue Canyon Technologies will continue operating the NASA-funded cubesats TEMPEST-D and HaloSat from its mission operations center in Boulder, Colorado under contract extensions announced 2019-08-05.
Blue Canyon Technologies doubled its staff in the past year and plans to open an 80,000-square-foot headquarters and production facility in 2020.
PlanetiQ reduced its satellite design to under 20 kg in 2015 when it selected Blue Canyon Technologies as its manufacturing partner.
Capella Space has ordered 12 attitude control systems from Blue Canyon Technologies.
YAM-2 uses a chassis from Blue Canyon Technologies and has a mass slightly under 100 kg.
Blue Canyon Technologies developed a line of reaction wheels for spacecraft ranging from miniature cubesats to 1,000-kilogram satellites.
Blue Canyon Technologies acquired additional office space in February to make room for its 140-person staff.