Boulder-based Blue Canyon Technologies is moving its headquarters to Lafayette early next year.
The company, which makes small spacecraft that serve as satellites once they are placed in orbit, has been growing and needs additional space for its 180 employees, said George Stafford, CEO and founder of Blue Canyon Technologies, which has doubled in size over the past 12 months.
The company has grown with the burgeoning demand in the small satellite market in the last few years, both domestically and internationally, he said. It is currently building more than 60 spacecraft for government, commercial and academic missions. The company currently operates from three different buildings in Boulder with a total space of 52,000 square feet, Stafford said. It will retain one of the building in Boulder.
“We have been in Boulder since our inception in 2008. We want to keep some presence in Boulder,” Stafford said.
Blue Canyon Technologies also made the 2019 Inc. 5000: The Most Successful Companies in America list, an annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. It ranked in the top fifth, with a spot at number 894. This is the third year the company has earned a place in the rankings.
Blue Canyon Technologies recently signed a lease for an 80,132-square-foot office/flex building at 2550 Crescent Drive in the Lafayette Corporate Campus, according to a news release from Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners. The two-story building at the campus will house Blue Canyon’s multiple operations, including day-to-day management, engineering, manufacturing and distribution, as well as research and development.
“Lafayette Corporate Campus is an ideal real estate solution for aerospace and advanced technology companies due to the large floorplans, ample parking and highly sought-after location along the US 36 Corridor,” Ryan Good, executive vice president and partner at Etkin Johnson, said in a statement.
Employee-owned Blue Canyon is looking to hire an additional 30 employees, particularly in engineering, mission operations and manufacturing to accommodate growth, Stafford said.
Blue Canyon “is currently working on highly visibly, high-impact missions to low earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit, lunar orbit, and the first CubeSats to travel to another planet (MarCO),” according to a company announcement. The MarCO mission recently won the SmallSat Mission of the Year Award for 2019 from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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