RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, has established communication with both CubeSats for the NASA PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment) mission. The PREFIRE mission will measure the amount of heat Earth emits into space from the Arctic and Antarctica. Blue Canyon Technologies has successfully made contact with NASA’s twin PREFIRE CubeSats. Credit: NASA/JPL Blue Canyon provided two heritage 6U CubeSats for the mission, which is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the agency’s Science Mission …