LAFAYETTE, Colo., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, announced the successful launch and initial contact with the MethaneSAT satellite. MethaneSAT is the first satellite funded by a nonprofit organization to accelerate more effective efforts to reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse pollutant responsible for about 30 […]
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Colorado companies team up on mission to the far side of the moon
Two Colorado space companies are partnering on a mission to put a research lander on the far side of the moon in 2026 and send data back to Earth. Denver-based iSpace USA Inc., a company making a lunar lander projected to launch in two years, hired Blue Canyon Technologies, a Lafayette-based subsidiary of defense giant RTX, also […]
Blue Canyon to deliver spacecraft for U.S. Air Force cislunar mission
The mission planned by the Air Force Research Laboratory will seek to demonstrate on-orbit maneuvering WASHINGTON — Blue Canyon Technologies is preparing to deliver a spacecraft designed for the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate the capabilities of maneuverable satellites in deep space. The company, a subsidiary of defense and aerospace contractor RTX, expects to soon […]
Control moment gyroscopes deliver a quantum leap in smallsat capabilities
For more than a decade, RTX’s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies’, high-precision, advanced solutions have disrupted the space industry by demonstrating how lower-cost smallsats serve as a complement to larger satellites in the commercial, science and defense sectors. Now, the same can be said for the company’s components. By leveraging existing technology, Blue […]
What sets Colorado’s Front Range apart from other space hubs?
The region has been instrumental to some of the biggest aerospace projects of the millenium, including bringing humans to the moon and Mars. As America aims to send humans back to the moon and astronauts potentially go to Mars for the first time, Colorado — with its cluster of talent and growing constellation of space companies — […]