Blue Canyon Technologies helps launch small satellite industry

BOULDER — Boulder entrepreneur George Stafford helped launch Blue Canyon Technologies LLC more than a decade ago, when the U.S. government was the only customer for any type of aerospace product.

Now, the small satellite manufacturer has multitudes of government, commercial and academic customers in a rapidly evolving and dynamic new market.

“The dynamics changed because of the entrance of more countries, companies and outside investment money for commercial enterprises. A lot of that has been driven by launch costs going down,” said Stafford, president and CEO of Blue Canyon Technologies and cofounder of the company with Matthew Beckner, chief operating officer,…