Flight-Proven
Spacecraft
Solutions
Our family of spacecraft offers complete end-to-end solutions for your mission needs. Get ready for a new era of peak performing, cost-efficient spacecraft.
Industry-Trusted
Bus Platforms
Our industry-trusted spacecraft bus designs are solving the toughest challenges in space through autonomous operations, command and data encryption, innovative payload thermal accommodation and more.
All bus platforms feature the most accurate stellar-based attitude solutions with pointing accuracy beyond even what is included on our data sheets with powerful processing cores, low-noise reaction wheel assemblies and star trackers.
Microsats & Minisats
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Saturn-200
- Minisatellite
Our largest rideshare-compatible bus featuring robust power systems, secure data handling and industry-leading guidance and navigation with more payload volume. ESPA-Grande or equivalent 24-inch interface standard. TRL9 hardware baseline. 200-kg payload capacity.
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Venus-100
- Microsatellite
Extremely precise and proven-reliable bus platform featuring standardized design enabling aggressive schedules. ESPA-standard or larger 15-inch launch vehicle interface. TRL9 hardware baseline. 70-kg payload capacity.
CubeSats
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16U CubeSat
- CubeSat
The largest form factor in our standard CubeSat product line, offering as much as 14U of payload volume with a cannister-dependent option for an additional 12,000 cubic centimeters of volume. The larger payload volume capacity provides an ideal solution for remote sensing, earth observation and in-space communications. TRL9 hardware baseline.
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12U CubeSat
- CubeSat
Extremely precise and proven-reliable bus platform featuring standardized design enabling aggressive schedules. Flight proven to GEO. TRL9 hardware baseline. 8U typical payload volume.
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6U CubeSat
- CubeSat
Extremely precise and proven-reliable bus platform featuring standardized design enabling aggressive schedules. TRL9 hardware baseline. 4U typical payload volume.
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3U CubeSat
- CubeSat
Extremely precise and proven-reliable bus platform featuring standardized design enabling aggressive schedules. TRL9 hardware baseline. 1.5U typical payload volume.
Industry-trusted
Propulsion
In addition to our leading-edge attitude control, Blue Canyon Technologies works with a number of propulsion providers to help your spacecraft reach optimal orbits, maintain them and deorbit on command. We have proven flight heritage on a number of chemical and electrical propulsion systems, and are past the Critical Design Review milestone with even more.
Number of Systems Supported:
>8
Velocity
>900 m/sec
standard design
2,700 m/sec
max
Proven heritage
Optical Intersatellite Links
Blue Canyon Technologies has integrated payload OISLs that are successfully operating on-orbit. In addition, we are in the research and development stage of offering OISLs as part of our standard bus design.
Intersatellite Link Performance:
Up to 2.5 Gbps
Intersatellite Distance
>5,000 km
Vertical
Integration
At Blue Canyon Technologies, our vertical integration spans from individual components to mission operation services that manage spacecraft on-orbit.
