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Unique mission will provide secure communications across the globe using Loft Orbital’s YAM-4 spacecraft being developed by Blue Canyon Technologies August 05, 2020 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) has been selected by Loft Orbital to develop and build the YAM-4 spacecraft bus […]

by Sandra Erwin for Space News — July 3, 2020 If DARPA exercises all options, the contract has a potential value of $99.4 million. WASHINGTON — Blue Canyon Technologies is producing four satellite buses for the Blackjack program under a $14.1 million contract awarded last month by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The contract has options for DARPA to […]

by Caleb Henry at SpaceNews — June 19, 2020 WASHINGTON — Smallsat builder Blue Canyon Technologies is moving employees into a recently opened factory designed to build 100 satellites a year, and more in the future.  The Crescent Satellite Constellation manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Colorado, near the city of Boulder, opened June 3, Matt Beckner, Blue Canyon chief […]

by Sandra Erwin for Space News — April 24, 2020 Lockheed Martin will integrate satellite buses and payloads with data processors. WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.8 million contract for satellite integration work for the Blackjack program, the company announced April 24. Blackjack is a project to deploy a constellation of […]

Dear BCT Customers and Partners, As the impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt worldwide, we wanted to reach out to inform you of what Blue Canyon Technologies has been doing to help protect our employees and customers during these challenging times. We have been closely monitoring updates from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) […]

Darrell Etherington with Tech Crunch / 12:27 pm MST • February 12, 2020 In-orbit manufacturing startup Made in Space has tapped Colorado’s Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to help support its Archinaut One demonstration mission contracted by NASA, which is currently set to take place in 2022. The mission will see Made in Space show off the assembly of two ten-meter solar […]

Elizabeth Howell contributor with Forbes Feb 12, 2020 In the quest to build bigger things in space, one Colorado-based company is readying for an epic construction demonstration mission. Blue Canyon Technologies will provide the spacecraft vehicle infrastructure supporting a “factory” that will 3D-print solar arrays in space. The mission is called Archinaut One and its lead […]

by Debra Werner with Space News — February 12, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO –Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) announced plans Feb. 12 to supply its X-SAT small satellite for Made In Space’s Archinaut One on-orbit manufacturing demonstration mission. “The implications of our ability to conduct 3D printing in space are endless and we’re proud to partner with Made In Space […]

Co-founder and COO Matt Beckner is getting ready to flip the switch on a new, 80,000-square-foot satellite factory in Lafayette. by Eric Peterson with Company Week on February 2, 2020, 10:57 am MST Blue Canyon makes satellites the size of a breadbox that orbit 250 miles above the planet’s surface. The company is built for […]

By Rachel Jewett with Via Satellite| January 7, 2020 MethaneSAT has selected Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to develop and build the spacecraft bus for its first mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022. The donor-funded mission aims to provide global, high-resolution detection and quantification of methane emissions from oil and gas facilities, as well as measure emissions from […]