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 is a Raytheon subsidiary that manufactures satellite buses.
Blue Canyon’s X-SAT Saturn bus could be used for Space Development Agency Tracking Layer satellites or for the Transport Layer of communications satellites.
Blue Canyon Technologies will design and manufacture three smallsats to support NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission.
Blue Canyon’s attitude determination and control components provide precision pointing platforms used in space missions.
Blue Canyon operates advanced testing facilities that perform random vibration and thermal vacuum testing.
Raytheon acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in 2020, a Colorado-based smallsat manufacturer founded in 2008.
Raytheon Technologies acquired Blue Canyon Technologies and SEAKR Engineering and expanded its space payload and satellite bus capabilities and expertise.
Since acquiring Blue Canyon Technologies and SEAKR Engineering, Raytheon Technologies expanded its space payload and satellite bus capabilities and expertise.
The seven satellites under the $250,000,000 contract will be built on Saturn-class microsatellite buses made by Raytheon subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies.
Blue Canyon Technologies’ reaction wheel assemblies are built to provide spacecraft with a combination of torque and momentum storage required for mission navigation.
Blue Canyon Technologies will manufacture the spacecraft bus that will carry Quantum Space and customer payloads to cislunar space.
QS-1 will include partners GEOST, LLC and Blue Canyon Technologies.
Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn product with deep-space enhancements will provide Quantum Space with a quiet, stable, and agile spacecraft architecture for QS-1.
Blue Canyon Technologies will manufacture the spacecraft bus that will carry Quantum and customer payloads to cislunar space.
QS-1 will include partners GEOST, LLC and Blue Canyon Technologies.
Blue Canyon will provide the spacecraft bus for QS-1.
Raytheon Technologies acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in 2020.
Blue Canyon plans to ship the remaining nine satellite buses later 2022.
Blackjack is projected to have 12 satellites, with 10 supplied by Blue Canyon and two supplied by Telesat.
Under the DARPA contract, Blue Canyon is producing Saturn-class small satellite buses that can carry payloads up to 200 kg.