{"id":117155,"date":"2020-12-15T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/darpa-okays-blue-canyons-satellites-for-blackjack-program"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:23:37","slug":"darpa-okays-blue-canyons-satellites-for-blackjack-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/darpa-okays-blue-canyons-satellites-for-blackjack-program","title":{"rendered":"DARPA okays Blue Canyon\u2019s satellites for Blackjack program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-okays-blue-canyons-satellites-for-blackjack-program.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The satellites Blue Canyon developed for DARPA\u2019s Blackjack program \u2014 based on the company\u2019s commercial X-SAT bus \u2014 passed a critical design review.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies has been cleared to produce its first two satellites for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s Blackjack program, the company announced Dec. 14.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA plans to deploy up to 20 spacecraft in low-Earth orbit that will be connected by optical inter-satellite links and provide communications, missile tracking and navigation services.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Canyon in July won a $14.1 million contract to manufacture four satellites, with options worth $99 million for up to 20 satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The satellites Blue Canyon developed for DARPA\u2019s Blackjack program \u2014 based on the company\u2019s commercial X-SAT bus \u2014 passed a critical design review. WASHINGTON \u2014 Small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies has been cleared to produce its first two satellites for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s Blackjack program, the company announced Dec. 14. DARPA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}