Aerospace

Small satellite leader Blue Canyon Technologies completes CDR for DARPA Blackjack Program

Small satellite leader Blue Canyon Technologies completes CDR for DARPA Blackjack Program

BOULDER -- Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc. today announced it has completed its critical design review (CDR) for the Blackjack Program, a... Read More

Tuesday December 15, 2020 Tags: Lafayette, Blue Canyon Technologies, DARPA, George Stafford

SNC selected for NASA contract to produce oxygen on the Moon 

SNC selected for NASA contract to produce oxygen on the Moon 

SPARKS, Nev . -- Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced it has been selected for a contract as part of NASA’s Tipping Point solicitation to further develop its carbothermal reduction... Read More

Wednesday November 18, 2020 Tags: Louisville, Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems, Fatih Ozmen, Tom Crabb, NASA Tipping Point

Blue Canyon Technologies to be acquired by Raytheon Technologies, stay in state

Blue Canyon Technologies to be acquired by Raytheon Technologies, stay in state

BOULDER -- Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Raytheon Technologies... Read More

Wednesday November 11, 2020 Tags: Boulder, Blue Canyon Technologies, Raytheon, George Stafford

SNC names former NASA center director and astronaut Janet Kavandi to lead SNC’s space business

SNC names former NASA center director and astronaut Janet Kavandi to lead SNC’s space business

SPARKS, Nev. -- Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced former NASA Glenn Research Center director and astronaut Janet Kavandi has been named executive VP of SNC’s Space Systems Group... Read More

Friday November 6, 2020 Tags: Louisville, Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems, Janet Kavandi, Eren Ozmen

Colorado partners to launch Aerospace Alley

Colorado partners to launch Aerospace Alley

DENVER -- This week, key organizational partners acrossColorado, hand in hand with some of the nation's leading aerospace and aviation companies, well-known industry personalities, and education... Read More

Tuesday October 27, 2020 Tags: Denver, Aerospace Alley, John Barry, Dianne Primavera

Boom Supersonic rolls out XB-1, the first independently developed supersonic aircraft

Boom Supersonic rolls out XB-1, the first independently developed supersonic aircraft

DENVER -- Boom Supersonic, the aerospace company building the world’s fastest airliner, unveiled its supersonic demonstrator, XB-1, history’s first independently developed supersonic... Read More

Monday October 12, 2020 Tags: Denver, Boom Supersonic, XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, Blake Scholl

Maxar awarded contract to build sixth geostationary communications satellite for Intelsat in 2020

Maxar awarded contract to build sixth geostationary communications satellite for Intelsat in 2020

WESTMINSTER -- Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) today announced it will build the Galaxy 37 geostationary communications satellite for Intelsat , operator of the world’s largest... Read More

Thursday September 17, 2020 Tags: Westminster, Maxar Technologies, Intelsat, Megan Fitzgerald

Ball Aerospace completes critical design review of methane monitoring satellite's flight system and instrument

Ball Aerospace completes critical design review of methane monitoring satellite's flight system and instrument

BOULDER -- Just six months after preliminary design review, Ball Aerospace announced it successfully completed critical design review (CDR) of the MethaneSAT flight system and advanced spectrometer... Read More

Thursday September 10, 2020 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, MethaneSAT, Makenzie Lystrup, Cassandra Ely