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SATELLITE MANUFACTURING · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-07-28

Blue Canyon Technologies

Active Satellite Manufacturing Subsidiary HQ: Lafayette, Colorado Founded 2008

Lafayette/Boulder, CO cubesat-to-ESPA bus and components house (reaction wheels, star trackers) acquired by Raytheon (now RTX) in Dec 2020. Launched the larger Saturn-400 bus (2025) and announced a quadrupling of reaction-wheel throughput (2026) - direct evidence of the components bottleneck in proliferated-constellation demand.

63.8
ARI Composite
Very Low Risk
#8 of 66
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
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Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

63.8
ARI composite · Very Low Risk
Peer rank#8 of 66
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage45%
Tracked gov contracts$135.7M across 9 awards
Full finance profile →

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital
$135.7M lifetime tracked obligations across 9 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($117.8M) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Jun 19, 2026 M And A $620.0M MDA Space, Blue Canyon Technologies High

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorSatellite Manufacturing
Rank within sector#8 of 66
Tracked peers66

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Jun 19, 2026 SpaceNews MDA Space to buy Blue Canyon Technologies to gain foothold in U.S. market
Apr 12, 2024 USAspending.gov Administration Awards $7.9M to BLUE CANYON TECHNOLOGIES LLC for THIS IS A LETTER CONTRACT FOR POLARIZED SUBMILLIMETER ICE-CLOUD RADIOMETER (POLS...

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameBlue Canyon Technologies, LLC
OwnershipSubsidiary
HeadquartersLafayette, Colorado
CountryUS
Founded2008
ParentRTX Corporation
AliasesBlue Canyon Technologies, Blue Canyon, Blue Canyon Technologies LLC
Key programsSaturn-400 bus (up to 600 kg payload), Cubesat/ESPA buses, Reaction wheels and star trackers
Gov customersDARPA (Blackjack), NASA, DoD
IPO statusN/A - RTX subsidiary (acquired by Raytheon Dec 2020)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · RTX release documents the Saturn-400 launch; $117.8M DoD + $17.8M NASA heritage corroborated in local gov_grants DB.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against primary-source filings and operator investigation reports.