Exotrail signed its first contract with Blue Canyon Technologies, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies. The U.S. based small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider selected Exotrail, an end-to-end space mobility solutions provider, to embark Exotrail’s spaceware™ propulsion systems aboard the company’s Venus-class microsatellite platform, which will be used for NASA’s INCUS mission. Three Exotrail spaceware™ […]
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Colorado scientists to lead $177 million mission to make weather forecasting more reliable
Colorado State University, local engineering companies tapped for NASA’s Investigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) Alex Edwards, The Gazette Tired of the nebulous possibilities of weather reports in Colorado? Well, hear me and rejoice: Researchers at Colorado State University will lead a NASA mission to provide never-before-seen data that should make weather forecasting more reliable. The […]
Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, Blue Canyon Technologies, Wins Award from Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Provide Microsatellites for INCUS Mission
New microsats will help provide insight into thunderstorms’ impacts on weather and climate models LAFAYETTE, Colo., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, will design and manufacture three microsatellites to support NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts, or INCUS, mission. The INCUS mission – led by Colorado State […]
BCT Delivers MethaneSAT Bus [Video]
Blue Canyon’s Saturn-class microsat bus will help detect methane gas leaks across the globe. Watch as we deliver the completed bus for payload integration.
Blue Canyon Technologies Provides Small Satellite Critical Technologies on Transporter-6 Launch
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, today announced its contributions to the first orbital launch of 2023. The Transporter-6 launch pitched 114 small payloads into polar orbit on January 3, with Blue Canyon providing critical hardware components for several of the SmallSat missions aboard.
Blue Canyon Technologies Delivers Control Moment Gyroscopes to Commercial Customer
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, delivered eight flight control moment gyroscopes (CMG) or CMG actuators and their associated fully redundant control electronics to an undisclosed customer. “BCT has leveraged its deep technical knowledge of reaction wheels and ultra-low disturbance motors […]
Blue Canyon Technologies Provides Component Systems Headed to the Moon Aboard Historic NASA Launch
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, today announced the launch of eight avionics systems aboard Artemis 1 on Nov. 16, 2022. Artemis 1 is the first test flight of NASA’s new Space Launch System (“SLS”) rocket to send an uncrewed […]
Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn Product of Buses to Fly on Quantum Space’s First Mission in 2024
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced today that its ESPA Grande Saturn spacecraft bus will be a part of the maiden QS-1 mission of Quantum Space in October 2024. QS-1 will fly in cislunar space primarily around the two Earth-Moon-Lagrange Points 1 and 2, […]
Blue Canyon Technologies & SEAKR Engineering Deliver First Flight Unit and Payloads for DARPA Blackjack Program
LAFAYETTE, Colo., Sept. 7, 2022 – Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC, and SEAKR Engineering, LLC, wholly owned subsidiaries of Raytheon Technologies, announced today they have delivered one Saturn-class microsat bus and completed acceptance testing of the first two of twelve Pit Boss Battle Management Command, Control and Communication payloads […]
Blue Canyon Technologies Opens New Factory Dedicated to Manufacturing CubeSats
CubeSat Factory can produce 85 CubeSats a year LAFAYETTE, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 – Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, celebrated the grand opening of its new CubeSat Factory in Boulder, Colorado, with members of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce […]