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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MethaneSAT, projected to launch in 2024, was built on a Saturn-class microsat by Blue Canyon Technologies for the Environmental Defense Fund to measure methane emissions.
Raytheon is using Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn buses to build seven satellites for the Space Development Agency.
Blue Canyon Technologies will operate as a merchant supplier of buses and other hardware to any manufacturer rather than supplying exclusively to its parent company.
Blue Canyon Technologies operates a manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Colorado.
The Blackjack satellites were built with Blue Canyon Technologies’ largest satellite bus, the Saturn-class ESPA-Grande.
Blue Canyon Technologies opened an expanded cubesat factory in Boulder last year, increasing capacity from 50 to 85 cubesats per year.
The DARPA Blackjack contract with Blue Canyon Technologies included options to supply up to 20 buses.
Blue Canyon Technologies was acquired by Raytheon Technologies in 2020.
Blue Canyon Technologies is providing operations support for the Starling mission in addition to manufacturing the satellites.
Blue Canyon Technologies delivered the first Starling satellite in 2021.
The XB16 will be developed at Blue Canyon Technologies’ Spacecraft Manufacturing Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Blue Canyon Technologies will develop the XB16 at its Spacecraft Manufacturing Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Blue Canyon Technologies contributed products to the SpaceX Transporter-8 launch on 2023-06-12.
The SpaceX Transporter-8 launch included one 12U CubeSat built by Blue Canyon Technologies for a government customer.
The SpaceX Transporter-8 launch included two 6U CubeSats built by Blue Canyon Technologies for the Department of Defense Modular ISR (MISR) program.
The DARPA contract with Blue Canyon included options worth $99,000,000 for up to 20 satellites.
DARPA awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $14,100,000 contract in 2020 to manufacture four Blackjack satellites.
Blue Canyon Technologies built the three experimental satellites delivered to LEO by STP-CR2301.
The two spacecraft will be built by Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colorado.
DARPA plans to launch four Blackjack satellites later 2023 built on Blue Canyon buses and equipped with SEAKR radio-frequency communications payloads.