SATELLITE MANUFACTURING · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-10

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.

65.5

ARI Composite

Very Low Risk

#6 of 56

Peer Rank

Manufacturing cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

65.5

ARI composite · Very Low Risk

Peer rank#6 of 56

Peer groupManufacturing

Data coverage45%

Tracked gov contracts$135.6M across 9 awards

Full finance profile →

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital

$135.6M 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.

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorSatellite Manufacturing

Rank within sector#6 of 56

Tracked peers56

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.

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