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 expects to support several NASA launches, including the uncrewed Artemis 1 moon rocket scheduled for 2022-08-29 and the Starling mission at the end of 2022.
Blue Canyon Technologies has received awards from Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies, the Best in Biz Award, and the 2020 Tibbetts Award.
Blue Canyon Technologies manufactures cubesats and components in 60,000 square feet of dedicated facilities in Boulder, Colorado.
Blue Canyon Technologies opened a new 31,000-square-foot cubesat factory in Boulder, Colorado.
Blue Canyon Technologies will build two satellites that the Draper mission will deploy before landing.
In May, SpaceX launched a satellite built by Blue Canyon Technologies for MIT Lincoln Laboratory that aims to test operations in VLEO for several months.
Blue Canyon Technologies is providing additional spacecraft buses and components for missions including TROPICS, Starling, Artemis-1, and CIRCE.
Slingshot 1 is the first Blue Canyon 12U CubeSat bus carrying 19 payloads to low Earth orbit.
Work on these Blue Canyon Technologies spacecraft and components will be completed at Blue Canyon Technologies facilities in Boulder, Colorado.
Slingshot 1 is a 12U cubesat built by The Aerospace Corporation using a bus from Blue Canyon Technologies and carries 19 technology demonstration payloads including a modular plug-and-play interface.
NRL’s Sensor Development & Applications section contracted Blue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado to build and integrate the two CIRCE spacecraft.
Raytheon acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in December 2020.
For HACSSAT 1 and HACSSAT 2, Blue Canyon provided Space Dynamics Laboratory with the bus electronics for two 3U cubesats, integrated the payloads, and completed environmental testing on both spacecraft.
Blue Canyon Technologies has received awards from Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list, the Best in Biz Award, and the 2020 Tibbetts Award.
Agile Microsat, or AMS, is a standardized 6U cubesat bus that Blue Canyon designed, built, and tested for MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Blue Canyon provided numerous FleXcore attitude control systems and reaction wheels to more than five spacecraft on the Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
By the end of 2022, Blue Canyon Technologies’ Mission Operations Center will be operating 18 spacecraft that span seven different missions.
Microsatellites are manufactured at Blue Canyon Technologies’ 80,000-square-foot Lafayette facility.
Blue Canyon was selected in 2019 by the Naval Research Laboratory to support a combined U.S. Navy and U.K. Ministry of Defense demonstration mission in very low orbit called CIRCE.
Blue Canyon will operate the AMS spacecraft from its mission operations center in Lafayette, Colorado.