MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Companies are proceeding cautiously in applying artificial intelligence to satellite manufacturing. Blue Canyon Technologies, for example, wants to better understand how AI can contribute to manufacturing […]

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Bottlenecks emerge in the space industrial base as companies adapt to new demands for faster, cheaper satellites.

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The mission planned by the Air Force Research Laboratory will seek to demonstrate on-orbit maneuvering

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Former Lockheed Martin executive Chris Winslett last month was named general manager of Blue Canyon Technologies, a small-satellite manufacturer owned by Raytheon

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RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), announces successful launch and initial contact with CubeSats for the NASA Starling mission, a technology demonstration aimed […]

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on June 12 launched four satellites for a technology demonstration in low Earth orbit.

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A U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory cubesat equipped with a Link 16 tactical communications radio will launch to low Earth orbit as early as June on the SpaceX Transporter 8 rideshare.

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Raytheon is building seven satellites for the Space Development Agency but plans to pursue a different strategy in future SDA satellite procurements.

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Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, will design and manufacture three microsatellites to support NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts, or […]

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Quantum Space, a company founded earlier this year to develop spacecraft platforms in cislunar space, announced plans Oct. 26 for its first smallsat pathfinder mission that will collect space situational awareness data.

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Blue Canyon Technologies delivered the first of 10 satellite buses DARPA ordered in 2020 for its Blackjack experiment in low Earth orbit.

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Blue Canyon Technologies won its largest constellation order to date, a contract with weather technology company Tomorrow.io. 

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Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, celebrated the grand opening of its new CubeSat Factory […]

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Raytheon vice president Brad Tousley said there is growing interest from national security agencies in space missions in very low Earth orbit

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Blue Canyon Technologies won a $14.6 million contract to produce a small inspector satellite for operations beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit.

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Blue Canyon Technologies selected ExoTerra Resources to provide electric propulsion for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Blackjack Phase 2 and Phase 3 satellites.

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