LAFAYETTE, Colo., June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, was selected to build two 12U CubeSat buses for NASA’s PolSIR mission, which will study ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. In addition to designing and manufacturing the bus platforms, Blue Canyon […]
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RTX provides Blue Canyon Satellites for NASA Polar climate mission
Twin CubeSats will improve Earth climate modeling LAFAYETTE, Colo., June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission will measure the amount of heat Earth emits […]
RTX provides Blue Canyon satellite to help solve a crucial climate challenge
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 […]
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 — […]
RTX completes milestones on DARPA Blackjack Program with four Blue Canyon Technologies satellites
Connected satellites in low-Earth orbit to support national security LAFAYETTE, Colo., Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), announced today the satellites supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Blackjack program have completed critical milestones activities. National security space assets, critical to U.S. warfighting capabilities, traditionally […]
SpaceNews – New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth
Former Lockheed Martin executive Chris Winslett joins Raytheon’s small-satellite subsidiary amid efforts to expand the company’s footprint in defense programs WASHINGTON — Chris Winslett for three years ran one of Lockheed Martin’s small-satellite business sectors, helping the company win major orders from the Space Development Agency for its low Earth orbit constellation. Winslett last month was named […]
RTX Provides Blue Canyon Satellites for NASA Swarm Test Launch
RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), announces successful launch and initial contact with CubeSats for the NASA Starling mission, a technology demonstration aimed at proving the success of cooperative groups of spacecraft operating in an autonomous, synchronous manner or “swarm.” BCT provided four 6U CubeSats to NASA’s Small […]