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Blue Canyon Technologies

US
commercialFounded 2008
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
www.bluecanyontech.com
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Blue Canyon has launched a total of 87 spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJan 16, 2026Pandora Interstellar Mission to Utilize Saturn-200 Minisatellite Platform

Blue Canyon Technologies provided launch vehicle integration and post-launch bus commissioning for the Pandora mission.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductJan 16, 2026Pandora Interstellar Mission to Utilize Saturn-200 Minisatellite Platform

Pandora features the largest telescope payload ever integrated onto a Blue Canyon spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJan 16, 2026Pandora Interstellar Mission to Utilize Saturn-200 Minisatellite Platform

A Saturn-200 minisatellite developed by Blue Canyon Technologies was launched in support of NASA’s Pandora mission.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJan 16, 2026Pandora Interstellar Mission to Utilize Saturn-200 Minisatellite Platform

Blue Canyon Technologies provided the spacecraft bus for Pandora and is conducting assembly, integration, and environmental testing.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductJan 13, 2026Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launch

Blue Canyon Technologies of Lafayette, Colorado, will provide the small spacecraft for the CINEMA mission and operate it.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralDec 20, 2025NASA backs CINEMA smallsat fleet to probe Earth magnetotail

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipSep 23, 2025NASA Arcstone satellite and spectrometer begin active lunar calibration mission

Blue Canyon Technologies will provide its Venus-100 bus platform for the Alpine and Lupine relay satellites.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 16, 2024Introducing ispace-U.S.’s Relay Satellites Alpine and Lupine

Two microsatellite buses based on Blue Canyon Technologies’ Venus-100 platform will be deployed into lunar orbit as Alpine and Lupine.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 16, 2024Introducing ispace-U.S.’s Relay Satellites Alpine and Lupine

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 20, 2024ExoTerra raises $8 million to boost propulsion system production

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductApr 25, 2024ispace-U.S. Announces Official Launch of Data Relay Service Enabled by Two Relay Satellites

Sierra Space is designing its own satellite buses while using components from Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon subsidiary.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductApr 18, 2024Suppliers struggle as military embraces small satellites

Blue Canyon Technologies launched the MethaneSAT satellite and established initial contact with the spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralApr 12, 2024RTX Provides Blue Canyon Satellite to MethaneSAT for Tackling Crucial Climate Challenge

Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn-class platform offers power systems, secure data handling, and guidance and navigation capabilities with a 200-kg payload capacity.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductApr 12, 2024RTX Provides Blue Canyon Satellite to MethaneSAT for Tackling Crucial Climate Challenge

Blue Canyon Technologies provided its largest small satellite platform, the Saturn-class bus, for MethaneSAT.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductApr 12, 2024RTX Provides Blue Canyon Satellite to MethaneSAT for Tackling Crucial Climate Challenge

This MethaneSAT spacecraft is the fifth Blue Canyon Saturn-class platform to launch and operate on-orbit successfully.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductApr 12, 2024RTX Provides Blue Canyon Satellite to MethaneSAT for Tackling Crucial Climate Challenge

The Blue Canyon-built bus housing ispace-U.S.’s communications payload will serve as the data relay between Earth and the far side of the Moon to enable rapid data transmission from the lander and its payloads.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductApr 10, 2024ispace-U.S. to use RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies Spacecraft Bus for Lunar Far Side Communications Relay Satellites

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipApr 10, 2024ispace-U.S. to use RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies Spacecraft Bus for Lunar Far Side Communications Relay Satellites

The communications link provided by the Blue Canyon-built microsatellite buses is expected to be commercially available for other lunar activities in the future.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductApr 10, 2024ispace-U.S. to use RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies Spacecraft Bus for Lunar Far Side Communications Relay Satellites

Blue Canyon Technologies has nearly 300 sun sensors launched to date.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralApr 6, 2024Control moment gyroscopes deliver a quantum leap in smallsat capabilities
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