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Blue Canyon Technologies

US
commercialFounded 2008
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
www.bluecanyontech.com
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Blue Canyon Technologies was established in 2008 in Boulder, Colorado as a satellite component supplier.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralApr 9, 2019Blue Canyon Technologies: Doubling to meet demand

Blue Canyon Technologies plans to double its manufacturing space in 2020 when it moves into an 80,000-square-foot facility.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipApr 9, 2019Blue Canyon Technologies: Doubling to meet demand

Blue Canyon Technologies was selected by the Air Force through SpEC three weeks after submitting a proposal to work on Tetra, a program exploring missions, tactics, techniques, and procedures for microsatellites in geosynchronous orbit.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductApr 9, 2019Air Force rapid prototyping effort achieving SpEC-tacular speeds

Blue Canyon Technologies acquired additional office space in February to make room for its 140-person staff.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesNarrative GeneralApr 9, 2019Blue Canyon Technologies: Doubling to meet demand

Blue Canyon Technologies provided the satellite bus for R3D2.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductMar 28, 2019Rocket Lab launches DARPA satellite

One of the Blue Canyon-built smallsats is identified as S5, a 60-kilogram satellite designed to perform a space situational awareness mission using a payload provided by Applied Defense Solutions.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralFeb 15, 2019Air Force smallsat to fly on upcoming Falcon 9 launch

Blue Canyon Technologies won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2017 to build two smallsats intended to operate in geostationary orbit.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipFeb 15, 2019Air Force smallsat to fly on upcoming Falcon 9 launch

DARPA awarded satellite bus contracts for Blackjack to Airbus, Blue Canyon Technologies, and Telesat.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJan 26, 2019DARPA assembling team of Blackjack players

MMA Design is providing the antenna for the R3D2 spacecraft and Blue Canyon Technologies is providing the satellite bus.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesTechnical ProductJan 22, 2019Rocket Lab to launch DARPA satellite

Blue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado received a $1,500,000 study contract from DARPA for Blackjack.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipNov 29, 2018Telesat wins study contract for DARPA’s experimental constellation

Blue Canyon Technologies has eight turnkey spacecraft slated to launch by early 2019.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

One of the Air Force Research Laboratory contracts with Blue Canyon Technologies is for a 60-kilogram space situational awareness microsatellite bus to demonstrate monitoring of geostationary orbit with a small satellite constellation.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductOct 31, 2018Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

Blue Canyon Technologies developed XACT, a compact attitude control system, in 2010 under an Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovative Research contract.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

Blue Canyon Technologies has built 58 complete spacecraft, including four spacecraft it operates for customers in orbit.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

Blue Canyon Technologies is designing and manufacturing two small satellites destined for geostationary orbit under Air Force Research Laboratory contracts.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $1,540,000 contract on 2018-10-12 to define bus and payload requirements for Blackjack.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesTechnical ProductOct 31, 2018Blue Canyon Technologies wins constellation contract

AkashSystems’ cubesat will use a software-defined radio from Blue Canyon Technologies for S-band telemetry with a KSAT ground station in Svalbard, Norway.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipSep 27, 2018Former OneWeb Satellites CEO joins Akash Systems

Blue Canyon Technologies projects that electric propulsion would take about four months to move a satellite from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit and about six months to reach the Moon.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesTechnical ProductAug 8, 2018Electric propulsion to send smallsats from LEO to GEO orbit, moon

Blue Canyon Technologies is based in Boulder, Colorado and is bidding on two missions to transport spacecraft from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit using electric propulsion and on a mission to send a satellite from low Earth orbit to the Moon.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductAug 8, 2018Electric propulsion to send smallsats from LEO to GEO orbit, moon

Blue Canyon Technologies' standard ADCS solutions include star trackers, reaction wheels, torque rods, and coarse sun sensors.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesTechnical ProductADCS-1_2025
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