RTX’s Blue Canyon selected by NASA to provide spacecraft buses

RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies, was selected to build two 12U CubeSat buses for NASA’s PolSIR mission, which will study ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. In addition to designing and manufacturing the bus platforms, Blue Canyon will also provide mission operations services. The PolSIR instrument -Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer- will observe the full diurnal cycle of high-altitude ice clouds to improve climate forecasts and provide climate models with important insights on how Earth’s atmosphere will change in the future.