Red Canyon Engineering & Software
Red Canyon Engineering & Software develops advanced technology for space exploration and renewable resources, supporting missions for NASA and other major clients.
Company Overview
Red Canyon Engineering & Software develops cutting-edge technology to help humankind explore space and other planets, as well as advanced renewable resources on Earth. The company is involved in important missions such as exploring Jupiter's poles, the next Mars lander, and building the next human spacecraft to go to the Moon and Mars. Red Canyon Engineering & Software partners with key government agencies and renowned companies in the aerospace sector to carry out these ventures.
Services
Red Canyon Engineering & Software offers a range of services tailored to the aerospace and technology sectors. Their service offerings include flight software, independent verification & validation, mechanical design, structural analysis, systems engineering, FPGA design and verification, guidance, navigation, and control, spacecraft operations, command, and control, spacecraft telemetry analysis and health assessment, dynamic spacecraft simulators, hardware-in-the-loop, and spacecraft assembly, integration, test, and evaluation. The company leverages its expertise to address the world’s biggest challenges with integrity, responsiveness, and agility.
Products
The cFS Product Suite is one of Red Canyon Engineering & Software's key product offerings. It features custom aerospace flight software development, real-time operating system aerospace flight software, and aerospace flight software testing. The cFS suite has been utilized on numerous NASA missions including LADEE, LRO, GPM, RBSP, MMS, Morpheus, Solar Probe Plus, Mighty Eagle Lander, CPST, and Orion Backup Computer.
Clients and Partnerships
Red Canyon Engineering & Software serves a diverse client base that includes major government agencies such as NASA, NREL, NOAA, and DOD. Their commercial clients include industry giants like Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Space, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. Additionally, they partner with Peraton on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s LGSS Contract.
Notable Missions and Programs
Red Canyon Engineering & Software is actively involved in numerous significant missions and programs. These include Human Space Exploration projects such as HLS, EFT-1, Artemis I, Artemis II, and HHPC; Earth Missions like EOSDIS EED-2, WorldView Legion V, GSMO-2, NOAA, GOES-R, MethaneSat, Orbital Express, Small Sats; and Moon Missions such as CLPS and GRAIL. Notable Mars Missions include Perseverance, InSight, Maven, Phoenix, MRO, and Odyssey. The company has also contributed to Jupiter Missions (Europa Clipper, Lucy, Juno), and various Asteroid, Comets, and Sun Missions (OSIRIS-REx, Psyche, Janus, Kepler, Deep Impact, Stardust, Genesis).