Our missions
With hundreds of flight articles delivered, our work has spanned across components, full ADCS systems for nano and microsat, and complete spacecraft avionics. See below for examples of BCT Missions.
Air Force Research Laboratory_ Objective: First demonstration of a CubeSat at GEO_ BCT Providing: 12U Spacecraft Bus
NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory_ Objective: Search for exoplanets via extremely accurate payload pointing_ BCT providing: BCT XACT ADCS System for 6U Spacecraft Bus
DARPA_ Objective: Will provide global persistent coverage through operation of one or more payloads from up to six DoD mission areas._ BCT Providing: A low-earth orbit constellation of 60-200 microsatellites
University of Colorado_ Objective: Will measure solar spectral irradiance to understand how solar variability impacts Earth’s climate and to validate climate model sensitivity to spectrally varying solar forcing._ BCT Providing: 6U Spacecraft Bus
Ohio State University and NASA_ Objective: Observes, detects, and mitigates radio frequency interference (RFI) for microwave radiometers._ BCT Providing: 6U Spacecraft Bus
University of Iowa and NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility_ Objective: Measures soft X-ray emissions from the halo of our Milky Way galaxy._ BCT Providing: 6U Spacecraft Bus
PlanetiQ_ Objective: Commercial satellite constellation dedicated to weather, climate, and space weather._ BCT Providing: X-SAT Spacecraft Bus
Akash Systems Inc._ Will demonstrate record breaking RF speeds from a CubeSat leveraging proprietary GaN-on-Diamond amplifier technology._ BCT Providing: 12U Spacecraft Bus
The University of Colorado, The National Science Foundation and NASA_ Objective: Space weather instrument that collects soft X-ray emissions from the sun._ BCT Providing: BCT XACT ADCS System for 3U Spacecraft Bus
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)_ Objective: Successful demo of a radiometer which has now paved the way for a constellation Earth radiation budget mission._ BCT Providing: 3U Spacecraft Bus
Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory_ Objective: Capable of detecting and locating near-GEO (geo-synchronous orbit) space objects for routine and frequent updates to the GEO catalog._ BCT Providing: X-SAT Microsat Spacecraft Bus
Colorado State University_ Objective: Demo of a radiometer that will provide temporal observations of cloud and precipitation processes in a future constellation._ BCT Providing: 6U Spacecraft Bus
MIT Lincoln Labs_ Objective: Provides rapid-revisit passive microwave measurements over low-latitude tropical regions._ BCT Providing: Constellation of seven 3U Spacecraft Buses
Loft Orbital_ BCT Providing: X-SAT Mircosat Spacecraft Bus
DARPA and Northrop Grumman_ Objective: To space-qualify a new type of Kapton membrane reflectarray antenna._ BCT Providing: BCT X-SAT Spacecraft Bus
