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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Jeff Schrader previously served as president of SEAKR Engineering and Blue Canyon Technologies.
Jeff Schrader led execution and growth for a combined workforce of more than 1,000 employees at SEAKR Engineering and Blue Canyon Technologies.
A Saturn-200 minisatellite developed by Blue Canyon Technologies was launched in support of NASA’s Pandora mission.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided launch vehicle integration and post-launch bus commissioning for the Pandora mission.
Pandora features the largest telescope payload ever integrated onto a Blue Canyon spacecraft.
Blue Canyon has launched a total of 87 spacecraft.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided the spacecraft bus for Pandora and is conducting assembly, integration, and environmental testing.
Blue Canyon Technologies of Lafayette, Colorado, will provide the small spacecraft for the CINEMA mission and operate it.
The technology demonstration is managed by NASA Langley in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the USGS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Resonon Inc., Blue Canyon Technologies, and Quartus Engineering.
Two microsatellite buses based on Blue Canyon Technologies’ Venus-100 platform will be deployed into lunar orbit as Alpine and Lupine.
Blue Canyon Technologies will provide its Venus-100 bus platform for the Alpine and Lupine relay satellites.
ExoTerra’s Halo Hall-effect thrusters fired in orbit for the first time in 2023 on DARPA Blackjack Aces satellites manufactured by RTX subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies.
Blue Canyon Technologies, a small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider within RTX (NYSE: RTX), will design and manufacture two Venus-class microsatellite buses to serve as platforms carrying lunar communications relay capabilities.
Sierra Space is designing its own satellite buses while using components from Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon subsidiary.
This MethaneSAT spacecraft is the fifth Blue Canyon Saturn-class platform to launch and operate on-orbit successfully.
Blue Canyon Technologies launched the MethaneSAT satellite and established initial contact with the spacecraft.
Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn-class platform offers power systems, secure data handling, and guidance and navigation capabilities with a 200-kg payload capacity.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided its largest small satellite platform, the Saturn-class bus, for MethaneSAT.
ispace technologies U.S., inc. contracted Blue Canyon Technologies to design and manufacture two Venus-class microsatellite buses for ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3 scheduled for 2026.
The communications link provided by the Blue Canyon-built microsatellite buses is expected to be commercially available for other lunar activities in the future.