{"id":62089,"date":"2019-07-09T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-canyon-technology-provides-cubesats-for-nasa\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:12:49","slug":"blue-canyon-technology-provides-cubesats-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-canyon-technology-provides-cubesats-for-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Canyon Technology Provides Cubesats for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blue Canyon Technologies<\/strong> (BCT) was selected by <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate\u2019s Small Spacecraft Technology program and NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley \u2014 in collaboration with the <strong>University of Florida<\/strong> and <strong>MIT<\/strong> \u2014 to provide multiple 3U spacecraft for its CubeSat Lasercom Infrared Crosslink (CLICK) flight demonstration missions. The cubesats will be used for separate demonstration missions: the first is a laser space-to-ground demonstration mission and the second will demonstrate laser crosslinks and ranging in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n<p>The new communication capabilities demonstrated by CLICK aim to enable new classes of small satellite missions like swarms for remote sensing or global constellations for communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemonstrating precision timing and ranging over a lasercom crosslink using BCT CubeSat platforms will enable new capabilities for coordinated and distributed sensing missions,\u201d said Kerri Cahoy, associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at&nbsp;<i>MIT<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) was selected by NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate\u2019s Small Spacecraft Technology program and NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley \u2014 in collaboration with the University of Florida and MIT \u2014 to provide multiple 3U spacecraft for its CubeSat Lasercom Infrared Crosslink (CLICK) flight demonstration missions. The cubesats will be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}