{"id":8729,"date":"2023-04-08T00:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-canyon-enabling-space-missions-to-expand-the-frontiers-of-science-and-defense\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:39:04","slug":"blue-canyon-enabling-space-missions-to-expand-the-frontiers-of-science-and-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-canyon-enabling-space-missions-to-expand-the-frontiers-of-science-and-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Canyon Enabling Space Missions to Expand the Frontiers of Science and Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/bct700_638162761810531151.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Blue Canyon Enabling Space Missions to Expand the Frontiers of Science and Defense\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/bct700_638162761810531151.png\" style=\"opacity: 1.54212e-05;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/bct700_638162761810531151.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Blue Canyon, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, is a complete end-to-end spacecraft company and a leading provider of turnkey small satellites solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class satellites. BCT, through its various missions, is enabling space missions to expand the frontiers of science and defense.<\/p>\n<p>Their attitude determination and control components are one-of-a-kind, allowing for allowing for industry-leading precision pointing platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With hundreds of flight articles delivered, BCT&#8217;s work has spanned across components, full ADCS systems for nano and microsat, and complete spacecraft avionics. Few of BCT&#8217;s many missions are: Click A, CUTE, STARLING, ZEUS and many more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Components<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BCT offers a wide range of high-performance, low-recurring cost and rapid-response spacecraft systems and components. Its product range includes Attitude Control Sytems, Star Trackers, Reaction Wheels &amp; CMGS, Power System Capabilites, RF Capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missions Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blue Canyon is building over 90 spacecrafts for government, commercial, and academic missions. It carries Integration &amp; Test and Mission Operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Integration &amp; Test<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BCT is providing advance testing facilites. As part of their standard suite environment tests, they perform random vibration and thermal nvacuum testing. Additional test capabilities include: star simulators, wheel balance apparatus, solar array deployment support hardware, thermal cycle chambers, and a Helmholtz cage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mission Operations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mission operations provides scripts, C&amp;T, and tools used throughout system test &amp; operation, supports multiple missions and constellations, supports multiple ground stations and radios, automated and accessible. It supports automated execution, monitoring, visualization and data delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Canyon, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, is a complete end-to-end spacecraft company and a leading provider of turnkey small satellites solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class satellites. BCT, through its various missions, is enabling space missions to expand the frontiers of science and defense. Their attitude determination and control components are one-of-a-kind, allowing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[29,26,81,20,37],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adcs-systems","tag-ground","tag-reaction-wheels","tag-satellite","tag-star-trackers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729"}],"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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}