Blue Canyon Technologies to Provide CubeSats for VISORS Space Program to Study the Sun
May 12 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Leading small satellite manufacturer and mission services
provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC (“BCT” or “Blue Canyon”), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), today
announced the company was selected to provide a pair of 6U CubeSat
buses and an Engineering Development Unit for the Virtual
Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms, or VISORS,
program, a space mission sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
The objective of the VISORS program is to detect and study the
fundamental energy-release regions in the sun’s corona.
“Blue Canyon Technologies is providing key components in a
program that will, for the first time, reveal individual
energy-release sites in the solar corona to test theories of
coronal heating,” said George Stafford, co-founder and CEO of Blue
Canyon Technologies. “Our company's technology will enable the
VISORS program to help scientists understand the sun’s plasma
physics and refine models for nanoflares and corona
composition."
Under the contract awarded by the University of Illinois, BCT
will also be providing an Engineering Development Unit that will
allow the program's instrument team to test hardware well in
advance of the VISORS launch. Delivery of the buses to Georgia Tech
for instrument integration is scheduled for June and September
2022.
In addition to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center and a number of academic institutions
are involved including the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Stanford University, Washington State University, Ohio State
University, Purdue University, the University of California San
Diego, New Mexico State University, Montana State University, and
the University of Colorado.
About Blue Canyon Technologies Blue Canyon Technologies
(BCT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, offers a
diverse portfolio of innovative, reliable and affordable spacecraft
that enable a broad range of missions and technological
advancements for the new space economy, reducing the barriers of
space entry. BCT is currently supporting nearly 50 unique missions
with over 90 spacecraft, all in production at their newly developed
80,000-square-foot facility in Lafayette, Colorado.
BCT has supported missions for the U.S. Air Force, NASA and the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and provided the
Attitude Control Systems for the first interplanetary CubeSats,
which successfully traveled to Mars. The company has been
recognized with awards from Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest Growing
Private Companies, the 2020 Best in Biz Award and the 2020 Tibbetts
Award.
For the latest news on Blue Canyon Technologies and for other
company information, please visit www.bluecanyontech.com. You can
follow the company on Instagram here or Twitter here.
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