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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 acquired by Raytheon Technologies in 2020.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralOct 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

The Blackjack satellites were built with Blue Canyon Technologies’ largest satellite bus, the Saturn-class ESPA-Grande.

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

Raytheon is using Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn buses to build seven satellites for the Space Development Agency.

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

Blue Canyon Technologies opened an expanded cubesat factory in Boulder last year, increasing capacity from 50 to 85 cubesats per year.

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

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 delivered the first Starling satellite in 2021.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralAug 17, 2023Blue Canyon Technologies Announces Successful Initial Contact with NASA's Starling CubeSats

Blue Canyon Technologies is providing operations support for the Starling mission in addition to manufacturing the satellites.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralAug 17, 2023Blue Canyon Technologies Announces Successful Initial Contact with NASA's Starling CubeSats

The XB16 will be developed at Blue Canyon Technologies’ Spacecraft Manufacturing Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductAug 10, 2023Blue Canyon Technologies Introduces Largest Form Factor in its CubeSat Product Line

Blue Canyon Technologies will develop the XB16 at its Spacecraft Manufacturing Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductAug 10, 2023RTX Trilogy: Contract to develop platform agnostic BLOS SATCOM solution / New large form factor CubeSat / DARPA award for AI to human values

Blue Canyon Technologies contributed products to the SpaceX Transporter-8 launch on 2023-06-12.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJul 19, 2023Blue Canyon Technologies provides defense-critical smallsats on Transporter-8 Launch

The SpaceX Transporter-8 launch included one 12U CubeSat built by Blue Canyon Technologies for a government customer.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJul 19, 2023Blue Canyon Technologies provides defense-critical smallsats on Transporter-8 Launch

The SpaceX Transporter-8 launch included two 6U CubeSats built by Blue Canyon Technologies for the Department of Defense Modular ISR (MISR) program.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJul 19, 2023Blue Canyon Technologies provides defense-critical smallsats on Transporter-8 Launch

The DARPA contract with Blue Canyon included options worth $99,000,000 for up to 20 satellites.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative FinancialJun 13, 2023DARPA downsizes Blackjack space experiment

DARPA awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a $14,100,000 contract in 2020 to manufacture four Blackjack satellites.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJun 13, 2023DARPA downsizes Blackjack space experiment

Blue Canyon Technologies built the three experimental satellites delivered to LEO by STP-CR2301.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJun 12, 2023UPDATE: A SpaceX Falcon 9 dispatched 72 smallsats to orbit including 3 experimental smallsats for Space Systems Command + dozens of additional payloads

The two spacecraft will be built by Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralMay 23, 2023New NASA mission to study ice clouds + Earth’s dynamic atmosphere

DARPA plans to launch four Blackjack satellites later 2023 built on Blue Canyon buses and equipped with SEAKR radio-frequency communications payloads.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipApr 27, 2023Raytheon rethinks strategy to compete in military satellite market

Blue Canyon Technologies is a Raytheon subsidiary that manufactures satellite buses.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductApr 27, 2023Raytheon rethinks strategy to compete in military satellite market

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.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductApr 27, 2023Raytheon rethinks strategy to compete in military satellite market
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