Blue Canyon Technologies

As a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, Blue Canyon Technologies is a complete end-to-end spacecraft company and a leading provider of turnkey small satellite solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class satellites. Our attitude determination and control components are one-of- a-kind, allowing for industry-leading precision pointing platforms.

• Flown over 52 star trackers, 153 reaction wheels and 25 ADCS modules. Bought by Raytheon in 2020. Expanded factory in 2022.
• New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth, SpaceNews, 2023-10-09.
• Blue Canyon to deliver spacecraft for U.S. Air Force cislunar mission. Oracle-M (Mobility) will be AFRL’s first cislunar space mission. The Air Force is looking to demonstrate orbital change maneuvers and navigation in that largely unknown environment. SpaceNews, 2024-02-12.

• RAVAN XB3 (Radiometer Assessment Using Vertical Aligned Nanotubes, Ravan XB-3)
• CubeRRT (CubeSat Radiometer RFI Technology Validation )
• HaloSat (Halo-Sat)
• TEMPEST-D (Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems - Demonstrator)
• BlackHawk (Black Hawk)
• CSIM (CSIM-FD, CSIM FD, (Compact Solar Irradiance Monitor)
• ORCA (SEOPS-ORCA)
• CIRiS (Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space, CIRIS-BATC)
• DeMi (Deformable Mirror Demonstration)
• CNCE1 (Cubesat Networked Communications Experiment, CNCE Block 1)
• CNCE3 (Cubesat Networked Communications Experiment, CNCE Block 1)
• TROPICS Pathfinder (The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• ASCENT
• AMS (Agile MicroSatellite)
• CNCE V4 (CNCE4, Cubesat Networked Communications Experiment, CNCE Block 2, HACSSAT-1)
• CNCE V5 (CNCE5, Cubesat Networked Communications Experiment, CNCE Block 2, HACSSAT-2)
• TROPICS 1 (The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• TROPICS 2 (The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• Gunsmoke-L 1 (Lonestar)
• MISR-B (MISR-B-1, Modular Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance)
• Slingshot-1 (SLINGSHOT1)
• CLICK A (CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK, CLICK-A)
• CIRCE A (Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment, WISCER)
• CIRCE B (Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment, WISCER)
• TROPICS 5 (TROPICS-05, TROPICS SV05, The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• TROPICS 6 (TROPICS-06, TROPICS SV06, The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• TROPICS 3 (TROPICS-03, TROPICS SV03, The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• TROPICS 7 (TROPICS-07, TROPICS SV07, The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)
• MISR-A (Modular Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Modular ISR, MISR-A-1)
• MISR-D (MISR-B, MISR-B-2, Modular Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance)
• XVI (Link-16 CubeSat, AFRL-XVI)
• Starling1 A (Starling 1)
• Starling1 B (Starling 2)
• Starling1 C (Starling 3)
• Starling1 D (Starling 4)
• Tomorrow-S1
• Tomorrow-S2

• Gunsmoke-G
• Gunsmoke-L 2 (Lonestar)
• VISORS A (Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms)
• VISORS B (Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms)
• EZIE A (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)
• EZIE B (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)
• EZIE C (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)
• CLICK B (CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK, CLICK-B)
• CLICK C (CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK, CLICK-C)
• Tomorrow-S3
• Tomorrow-S4
• PolSIR A (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer)
• PolSIR B (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer)

• MCNAIR