Tag: Satellite Bus
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Blue Canyon Technologies’ new satellite might have a role in Golden Dome and other space applications
A small satellite company is going (just a little) big. Blue Canyon Technologies, a Lafayette-based small satellite manufacturer, unveiled its Saturn-400 last week. The craft can fill a variety of roles and may be part of the ongoing Golden Dome effort, a new missile defense shield planned for the nation. Golden Dome, which lacks an…
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Colorado scientists to lead $177 million mission to make weather forecasting more reliable
Tired of the nebulous possibilities of weather reports in Colorado? Well, hear me and rejoice: Researchers at Colorado State University will lead a NASA mission to provide never-before-seen data that should make weather forecasting more reliable. The mission is called the Investigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) and will be the third NASA Earth Venture mission.…
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Lafayette-based Blue Canyon Technology lands NASA contract
NASA picked Lafayette-based Blue Canyon Technologies to build eight X-SAT Venus ESPA-class microsatellite buses for its HelioSwarm science mission, which will study solar wind and space plasma turbulence, according to a news release Thursday. A microsatellite bus, or microsat, is a small satellite, from 22 to 200 lbs., that can carry payload for commercial or…