In addition to our industry-leading pointing accuracy, Blue Canyon is where customers turn for solutions for thermal control, guidance and navigation and mission challenges. For example, when DARPA and Northrop Grumman wanted to space-qualify a new type of Kapton membrane reflectarray antenna, they relied on Blue Canyon to manage the guidance and navigation challenges of controlling a large, deployable structure with a much smaller spacecraft – our Venus-100 microsatellite.

In addition, Colorado State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory selected Blue Canyon’s Venus-class minisatellite to better understand the complex dynamics of thunderstorms and their impact on Earth’s climate and weather models. A constellation of three Venus-100 spacecraft will fly in tandem coordination as part of the INCUS mission, each displaying a dynamic atmospheric radar and dynamic microwave radiometer measuring the atmospheric conditions of Earth.