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 was selected by the Air Force through SpEC three weeks after submitting a proposal to work on Tetra, a program exploring missions, tactics, techniques, and procedures for microsatellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Blue Canyon Technologies was established in 2008 in Boulder, Colorado as a satellite component supplier.
Blue Canyon Technologies plans to double its manufacturing space in 2020 when it moves into an 80,000-square-foot facility.
Blue Canyon Technologies operates five spacecraft and expects to operate closer to 15 by the end of the year.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided the satellite bus for R3D2.
One of the Blue Canyon-built smallsats is identified as S5, a 60-kilogram satellite designed to perform a space situational awareness mission using a payload provided by Applied Defense Solutions.
Blue Canyon Technologies won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2017 to build two smallsats intended to operate in geostationary orbit.
DARPA awarded satellite bus contracts for Blackjack to Airbus, Blue Canyon Technologies, and Telesat.
MMA Design is providing the antenna for the R3D2 spacecraft and Blue Canyon Technologies is providing the satellite bus.
Blue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado received a $1,500,000 study contract from DARPA for Blackjack.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $1,540,000 contract on 2018-10-12 to define bus and payload requirements for Blackjack.
Blue Canyon Technologies is designing and manufacturing two small satellites destined for geostationary orbit under Air Force Research Laboratory contracts.
Blue Canyon Technologies developed XACT, a compact attitude control system, in 2010 under an Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovative Research contract.
Blue Canyon Technologies has built 58 complete spacecraft, including four spacecraft it operates for customers in orbit.
Blue Canyon Technologies has eight turnkey spacecraft slated to launch by early 2019.
One of the Air Force Research Laboratory contracts with Blue Canyon Technologies is for a 60-kilogram space situational awareness microsatellite bus to demonstrate monitoring of geostationary orbit with a small satellite constellation.
AkashSystems’ cubesat will use a software-defined radio from Blue Canyon Technologies for S-band telemetry with a KSAT ground station in Svalbard, Norway.
Blue Canyon Technologies is based in Boulder, Colorado and is bidding on two missions to transport spacecraft from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit using electric propulsion and on a mission to send a satellite from low Earth orbit to the Moon.
Blue Canyon Technologies projects that electric propulsion would take about four months to move a satellite from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit and about six months to reach the Moon.