{"id":191177,"date":"2024-06-13T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/nasa-selects-rtxs-blue-canyon-technologies-to-provide-cubesat-buses-for-polsir-mission"},"modified":"2024-06-13T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:23:31","slug":"nasa-selects-rtxs-blue-canyon-technologies-to-provide-cubesat-buses-for-polsir-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/nasa-selects-rtxs-blue-canyon-technologies-to-provide-cubesat-buses-for-polsir-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA selects RTX\u2019s Blue Canyon Technologies to provide CubeSat buses for PolSIR mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-selects-rtxs-blue-canyon-technologies-to-provide-cubesat-buses-for-polsir-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LAFAYETTE, Colo. -<\/strong> The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryaerospace.com\/communications\/article\/14292611\/nasa-selects-blue-canyon-technologies-to-provide-microsatellites-for-incus-mission\">National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)<\/a> has selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryaerospace.com\/commercial-aerospace\/article\/14304756\/piper-selects-rtxs-pt6a-52-engine-to-power-new-m700-turboprop\">RTX\u2019s<\/a> small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colo., to build two 12U CubeSat buses for NASA\u2019s PolSIR mission.<\/p>\n<p>The PolSIR mission 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.<\/p>\n<p>The PolSIR instrument \u2013Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer\u2013 will observe the full diurnal cycle of high-altitude ice clouds to improve climate forecasts and provide climate models with important insights into how Earth\u2019s atmosphere will change in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE, Colo. \u2014 The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected RTX\u2019s small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colo., to build two 12U CubeSat buses for NASA\u2019s PolSIR mission. The PolSIR mission will study ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191177","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}