World-Class Performance
Technical
Capabilities
Blue Canyon Technologies is widely recognized for demonstrating world-class technical performance on small, cost-constrained and high-volume systems.
Success
Reputation
This reputation is rooted in a wide variety of mission and product type successes, including:
- Low jitter, arcsecond-class on-orbit pointing systems across our suite of bus platforms and subsystem offerings
- Arcsecond-class on-orbit pointing systems across our suite of small satellites
- On-orbit operations in VLEO, LEO, GEO, Lunar and deep space missions, including attitude control systems on the first interplanetary CubeSats
- An impressive flight heritage of more than 100 years on-orbit for spacecraft, 200+ years for avionics assemblies and 2,100+ for components
- Mission successes span optical imaging, commercial SAR, exploration astronomy, autonomous formation flying, weather observation, communications, defense applications and more
- Six of the last eight American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Smallsat Missions of the Year award winners leveraged Blue Canyon hardware.
Our technical team brings decades of combined smallsat and traditional space experience to every spacecraft subsystem and program phase, enabling Blue Canyon to successfully optimize low-cost and short-schedule programs.
Core
Components
Portfolio
Space Agility
Our core spacecraft components provide best-in-class performance to cost ratios.
Reaction Wheels
Blue Canyon Reaction Wheels (in all sizes) support exquisite optical missions, our arcsecond-class star tracker meets demanding requirements for astronomy and other missions, and our turnkey guidance, navigation and control systems provide industry-leading smallsat pointing accuracy, geolocation, propulsion control and other capabilities.
Control Moment Gyroscopes
Blue Canyon’s new Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs) enable a disruptive leap in spacecraft agility and data collection capacity and meet every stringent control and stability requirement at unprecedented smallsat SWaP-C.
CubeSats & Minisatellites
Both our standard CubeSat and minisatellite platforms support a wide variety of mission types and orbits, having successfully supported missions in VLEO, LEO, GEO and cislunar space. Our spacecraft leverage our vertically integrated portfolio to provide leading on-orbit performance at low cost. Blue Canyon small satellites have been especially successful at controlling large deployable payloads, hosting and guiding novel thruster systems, integrating payload and bus control autonomous logic and supporting other cutting-edge technologies.
We minimize bus SWaP-C to maximize payload capabilities and, when desired, customer-provided software autonomy applications can “fly” Blue Canyon buses under the supervision of our flexible and powerful autonomous bus fault protection.
Since the first flight of Blue Canyon hardware in 2015, generational enhancements to our product portfolio have provided ever-increasing resistance to radiation-induced upsets. Most of our products are now in their third or fourth generation, advancing in technical performance, radiation tolerance, manufacturability and overall capability with each iteration. Further advances both incremental and disruptive are on the horizon and drive our expectation that Blue Canyon’s technical solutions will continue to expand what’s possible.