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Blue Canyon Technologies

US
commercialFounded 2008
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
www.bluecanyontech.com
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Blue Canyon Technologies has more than 800 reaction wheels launched to date.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies offers the CMG-8 with 8 Nms rotor momentum and 8 Nm of output torque.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies has launched 70 spacecraft since its inception.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies has delivered multiple sets of flight control moment gyroscopes designed at a SWaP-C appropriate level for the smallsat market.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies offers the CMG-12 with 12 Nms rotor momentum and 12 Nm of output torque.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies’ spacecraft platforms are designed to provide CMG-based solutions optimized for increased performance, low cost, high reliability, and high-volume production.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies’ components and bus platforms have completed missions in Very-Low Earth Orbit, Low Earth Orbit, Geostationary Earth Orbit, cislunar space, and on an interplanetary journey.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies has 200 star trackers launched to date.

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

ispace will use 1,800,000,000 JPY to cover part of the cost of two relay satellites being built by Blue Canyon Technologies to handle communications between the farside lander and Earth.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipMar 28, 2024Japanese lunar lander company ispace raises $53.5 million in stock sale

Blue Canyon Technologies is building Oracle-M under a $14,600,000 contract awarded in November 2021.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipFeb 12, 2024Blue Canyon to deliver spacecraft for U.S. Air Force cislunar mission

The Blackjack program provided on-orbit flight heritage for Blue Canyon’s Saturn buses.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductFeb 12, 2024Blue Canyon to deliver spacecraft for U.S. Air Force cislunar mission

XB3 from Blue Canyon Technologies has a design life of 5 years for LEO missions and 2 years for GEO missions.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductJan 3, 2024Top Satellite Bus and Platforms in 2023

XB3 from Blue Canyon Technologies requires payload power of 3.3 V or 5.0 V and provides an available payload volume of 8U.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJan 3, 2024Top Satellite Bus and Platforms in 2023

XB3 from Blue Canyon Technologies supports an uplink signal rate of 100 Kbps and a downlink signal rate of 2 Mbps on S-band.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductJan 3, 2024Top Satellite Bus and Platforms in 2023

The RWP015 from Blue Canyon Technologies has a maximum torque of 0.004 Nm, a momentum of 0.015 Nms, a mass of 0.13 kg, and requires a DC supply of 10-14 V with power consumption of less than 1 W.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralDec 26, 2023Top Satellite Reaction Wheels in 2023

The Standard NST from Blue Canyon Technologies requires a supply voltage of 5–28 V, consumes 1.5–3.5 W, has a mass of 0.35 kg, measures 10 x 5.5 x 0.05 m, supports RS-422 and RS-485 interfaces, and is suitable for LEO and GEO standalone missions or constellations.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipDec 26, 2023Top Satellite Star Trackers in 2023

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralOct 9, 2023New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth

Blue Canyon Technologies supplied cubesats for NASA’s CLICK B/C mission, projected to launch in 2024, to demonstrate optical communication crosslink between two small spacecraft in low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 9, 2023New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth

Blue Canyon Technologies operates a manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductOct 9, 2023New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth

Blue Canyon Technologies won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract in 2018 to supply buses for the Blackjack technology demonstration in low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipOct 9, 2023New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth
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