The BCT microsat spacecraft is a compact, energy efficient, affordable, radiation tolerant, resilient bus that includes secure communications. Type-1 encryption is available. Various propulsion, high-speed data links, and single-axis solar array drives are available options.

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Our affordable, high-performance XB3 cubesat spacecraft, with industry-leading volume and power available for your payload. The XB3 can be tailored to fit your needs, including secure communications, propulsion, high-speed data links and solar array drive mechanisms.

XB3 CUBESAT

Our cost-effective, high-performance XB6 cubesat spacecraft, with industry-leading volume and power available for your payload. The XB6 can be tailored to fit your needs, to include secure communications, propulsion, high-speed data links and solar array drive mechanisms.

XB6 CUBESAT

Our cost-effective, high-performance XB12 cubesat spacecraft, with industry-leading volume and power available for your payload. The XB12 can be tailored to fit your needs, to include secure communications, propulsion, high-speed data links and solar array drive mechanisms.

XB12 CUBESAT

Introducing the XB16 CubeSat, the largest form factor in our standard CubeSat product line. No mission or domain is out of reach for our line of spacecraft and components. With robust power systems, secure data handling, more volume to payload, and resilient performance, our suite of solutions are time-tested and proven-reliable, even under the harshest of conditions.


XB16 CUBESAT

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

EZIE

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

Slingshot-1

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

CLICK A

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

CUTE

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

STARLING

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

CIRCE

Commercial imagery customer _ Objective: Earth imagery in low-Earth orbit. _ BCT Provided: Venus-class Microsat Bus

COMMERCIAL IMAGERY PROGRAM

Government _ Objective: Highly successful mission. _ BCT Provided: Seven “Half ESPA” custom microsat spacecraft

ZEUS

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

METHANESAT

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

Link XVI

Arizona State University _ Destination: Lunar orbit _ Objective: Mapping of hydrogen around Lunar South Pole _ BCT Providing: XB1 Avionics

LunaH-Map

Argotec _ Destination: Earth (6 months) _ Objective: Take historically significant photography of the EM-1 mission _ BCT Providing: XACT-15

ArgoMOON

AeroAstro _ Destination: Lunar surface _ Objective: Demonstration of a nano-lander _ BCT Providing: XACT-15

OMOTENASHI

University of Tokyo and JAXA', _ Destination: Earth-Moon, L2 _ Objective: Trajectory control experiment in cis-lunar region, Imaging of earth’s plasmasphere, Lunar impact flash observation, measurement of dust environment in cis-lunar region _ BCT Providing: XACT-50

EQUULEUS

Southwest Research Institute _ Destination: Interplanetary _ Objective: Heliophysics _ BCT Providing: XACT-15

CuSP

NASA JPL _ Destination: Lunar Orbit _ Objective: Map lunar south pole for volatiles _ BCT Providing: XACT-50, Solar Panels

Lunar Flashlight

NASA Ames _ Destination: Heliocentric _ Objective: Detect, measure, and correlate the impact of space radiation in living organisms _ BCT Providing: XACT-15

BioSentinel

NASA MSFC _ Destination: Interplanetary _ Objective: Flyby of an asteroid with solar sail propulsion _ BCT Providing: XACT-15

NEA Scout

Morehead State University _ Destination: Interplanetary _ Objective: Search for water ice on Moon _ BCT Providing: XACT-15

Lunar IceCube

NASA JPL _ Destination: Mars _ Objective: Accomplished a successful mission that tested out miniature spacecraft technology in deep space _ BCT Provided: XACT-15

MarCO

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

D2S2

MIT Lincoln Laboratory _ Objective: Provided rapid-revisit passive microwave measurements over low-latitude tropical regions. _ BCT Provided: Constellation of seven XB3 CubeSat Buses

Tropics NASA Cubesat Constellation

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

Tempest-D

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

RAVAN

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

MinXSS

PlanetiQ _ Objective: Commercial satellite constellation dedicated to weather, climate, and space weather. _ BCT Provided: Microsat Spacecraft Bus

GNOMES

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

Halosat

Ohio State University and NASA _ Objective: Observed, detected, and mitigated radio frequency interference (RFI) for microwave radiometers. _ BCT Provided: XB6 Cubesat Bus

CubeRRT

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

CSIM

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

Blackjack

Air Force Research Laboratory _ Objective: Demonstration mission of a small satellite in Geostationary orbit. _ BCT Provided: XB12 CubeSat Bus

Ascent

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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