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Blue Canyon Technologies

US
commercialFounded 2008
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
www.bluecanyontech.com
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Blue Canyon Technologies opened a new 31,000-square-foot cubesat factory in Boulder, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipAug 7, 2022Blue Canyon opens new smallsat manufacturing facility in Colorado

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipAug 7, 2022Blue Canyon opens new smallsat manufacturing facility in Colorado

Blue Canyon Technologies will build two satellites that the Draper mission will deploy before landing.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJul 21, 2022Draper wins NASA contract for farside lunar lander mission

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductJul 19, 2022ESA funds Skimsat demonstrator study for VLEO

Slingshot 1 is the first Blue Canyon 12U CubeSat bus carrying 19 payloads to low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductJul 18, 2022Blue Canyon’s multiple spacecraft and components on Virgin Orbit launch

Work on these Blue Canyon Technologies spacecraft and components will be completed at Blue Canyon Technologies facilities in Boulder, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductJul 18, 2022Blue Canyon’s multiple spacecraft and components on Virgin Orbit launch

Blue Canyon Technologies is providing additional spacecraft buses and components for missions including TROPICS, Starling, Artemis-1, and CIRCE.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesTechnical ProductJul 18, 2022Blue Canyon’s multiple spacecraft and components on Virgin Orbit launch

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJul 2, 2022Virgin Orbit launches Space Force mission

NRL’s Sensor Development & Applications section contracted Blue Canyon Technologies of Boulder, Colorado to build and integrate the two CIRCE spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 7, 2022NRL CIRCE spacecraft participate in Historic U.K. Launch

Agile Microsat, or AMS, is a standardized 6U cubesat bus that Blue Canyon designed, built, and tested for MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon looks to demonstrate small-satellite performance at very low altitude

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

Blue Canyon provided numerous FleXcore attitude control systems and reaction wheels to more than five spacecraft on the Transporter-5 rideshare mission.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

By the end of 2022, Blue Canyon Technologies’ Mission Operations Center will be operating 18 spacecraft that span seven different missions.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

Blue Canyon Technologies launched Agile Microsat and HACSSAT 1 and HACSSAT 2 aboard the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission on 2022-05-25.

Mentioned as: blue canyon technologiesNarrative GrowthJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

Microsatellites are manufactured at Blue Canyon Technologies’ 80,000-square-foot Lafayette facility.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

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.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

Blue Canyon will operate the AMS spacecraft from its mission operations center in Lafayette, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Blue CanyonTechnical ProductJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon looks to demonstrate small-satellite performance at very low altitude

Raytheon acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in December 2020.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesNarrative GeneralJun 5, 2022Blue Canyon looks to demonstrate small-satellite performance at very low altitude

Blue Canyon Technologies’ X-SAT microsatellite buses carry payloads up to 200 kg and are designed to maximize volume, mass, and power while accommodating a variety of mission types.

Mentioned as: Blue Canyon TechnologiesTechnical ProductMay 10, 2022Dawn Aerospace Wins Blue Canyon’s X-SAT Saturn-Class Propulsion Business
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