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.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory_ Objective: Demonstrated sponsor payload performance in CubeSats flying in formation using differential drag to maintain spacing._ BCT Provided: Two XB3 CubeSat Buses
Johns Hopkins APL and NASA Goddard_ Objective: Image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets using Microwave Electrojet Magnetogram (MEM) instruments_ BCT Provided: Two EDU units, Three XB6 CubeSat buses, Payload integration, Mission Operations
The Aerospace Corporation_ Objective: First-ever BCT-built 12U bus carrying 19 payloads to low-Earth orbit. Mission will demonstrate the accessibility of integrating numerous payloads into a single interface._ BCT Provided: XB12 CubeSat Bus, Mission Operations
NASA Ames_ Objective: Click A is the first of three CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) Spacecraft used in a mission to demonstrate technology to advance communications between small spacecraft, plus the capability to gauge their relative distance and location._ BCT Provided: XB3 CubeSat Bus, Mission Operations Support
CU Boulder LASP_ Objective: Observes distant exoplanets by traveling in front of their stars, and determining some of the materials in the atmospheres._ BCT Provided: XB6 CubeSat Bus
NASA Ames Research Center_ Objective: Successful demonstration mission that proved the capability of affordable, distributed spacecraft missions, or swarms, in low-Earth orbit._ BCT Provided: XB6 CubeSat Bus
US Naval Research Laboratory and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory UK_ Objective: Utilized two CubeSats flying in tandem formation in low-Earth orbit to measure the ionosphere and radiation environment space from multiple vantage points._ BCT Provided: XB6 CubeSat Bus
Commercial imagery customer_ Objective: Earth imagery in low-Earth orbit._ BCT Provided: Venus-class Microsat Bus
Government_ Objective: Highly successful mission._ BCT Provided: Seven “Half ESPA” custom microsat spacecraft
MethaneSAT, LLC _Objective: Will provide global, high-resolution quantification of methane emissions from oil and gas facilities, as well as measure surface-level methane emissions from other sources of human-triggered methane emissions. _BCT Providing: Saturn-class Microsat Bus
Viasat and the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles_ Objective: Tested as a network relay with the use of a Link 16 terminal on a small satellite in low-Earth orbit._ BCT Provided: XB12 CubeSat Bus
Air Force Research Laboratory_ Objective: Demonstrated extraordinary mobility between orbital regimes in a small spacecraft with a useful space domain awareness payload. _ BCT Provided: Saturn-class Microsat Bus
PlanetiQ_ Objective: Commercial satellite constellation dedicated to weather, climate, and space weather._ BCT Provided: Microsat Spacecraft Bus
Air Force Research Laboratory_ Objective: Demonstration mission of a small satellite in Geostationary orbit. _ BCT Provided: XB12 CubeSat 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 4-20 Saturn-class Microsat buses
University of Colorado_ Objective: Measured solar spectral irradiance to understand how solar variability impacts Earth’s climate and to validate climate model sensitivity to spectrally varying solar forcing._ BCT Provided: XB6 CubeSat Bus
Ohio State University and NASA_ Objective: Observed, detected, and mitigated radio frequency interference (RFI) for microwave radiometers._ BCT Provided: XB6 Cubesat Bus
University of Iowa and NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility_ Objective: Successfully measured soft X-ray emissions from the halo of our Milky Way galaxy._ BCT Provided: XB6 CubeSat Bus
The University of Colorado, The National Science Foundation and NASA_ Objective: Space weather instrument that collected soft X-ray emissions from the sun._ BCT Provided: XACT ADCS System for XB3 CubeSat Bus
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)_ Objective: Successful demonstration of a radiometer which has now paved the way for a constellation Earth radiation budget mission._ BCT Provided: XB3 CubeSat Bus
Colorado State University_ Objective: Demonstrated radiometer that will provide temporal observations of cloud and precipitation processes in a future constellation._ BCT Provided: XB6 CubeSat Bus
MIT Lincoln Laboratory_ Objective: Provided rapid-revisit passive microwave measurements over low-latitude tropical regions._ BCT Provided: Constellation of seven XB3 CubeSat Buses
DARPA and Northrop Grumman_ Objective: To space-qualify a new type of Kapton membrane reflectarray antenna._ BCT Provided: ESPA-class Microsat Bus
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