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Red Canyon Engineering & Software would like to congratulate NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and SpaceX on the successful launch of Europa Clipper Monday! Red Canyon Software is proud to have supported JPL developing flight software for Europa Clipper for the past 5 years. Our Chief Software Architect, Lorn Miller was responsible for developing the software that boots up the flight software to get the spacecraft initialized and ready for operations! Red Canyon also supported the launch of Europa Clipper at NASA Kennedy Space Center on the Launch Services Program (LSP) (ELVIS 3) as a subcontractor to a.i. solutions. Thanks to Mike Campbell, Noel Sargent and Sukh Chase for their support on LSP! Not only is the Europa Clipper the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built, but it is also the first mission to focus on Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, further exploring the question of life in our solar system as this ice moon is one of the most promising places of life. Red Canyon Software is excited to follow along as the mission continues into 2030! #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #NASA #JPL #KennedySpaceCenter #EuropaClipper

A look back at a wonderful night where Red Canyon Software’s CEO Barry Hamilton and COO Kristin Thomas attended the 30th annual celebration of Wings over the Rockies! Though we're a bit late sharing, the excitement from the event is still soaring high. The night was filled with laughter and passion for aerospace and aviation, preserving history, and an eager look towards the future inspiration and innovation! Good to see all the friendly faces, here is to 30 more years of celebration! Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #spreadingwingscelebration #30thanniversary

Meet the new faces of Red Canyon Software’s Number Ninjas Accounting Team! As many of you may know or have met her, Sengens Amy-Cupp (center) has been one of our esteemed accountants for the past year and a half. However, please give a special welcome to our new Accounting Clerk I, Beckett Gonzales (Right) and Senior Accountant, David Barkley (Left)! We’re excited to have you both on board and can’t wait to see all the amazing work you’ll do! #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #TeamCulture #AccountingTeam

Last night was our annual Red Rocks show and this year we saw the Head & the Heart! It was a magical night as we got another rainbow for the second year in a row! A big thanks to everyone who came out – one of our favorite events to host year after year. Red Canyon Software shines bright and like at the end of the rainbow, there's always our pot of gold of coming together, having fun and celebrating our shared success! #ExploringPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #workhardplayhard #RedRocksAmphitheatre #doublerainbow #employeeappreciation #culture #smallbusiness

Introducing our last bright young professional participating in the inaugural Red Canyon cFS Internship! For our final week, please meet Selim Saridede! Selim Saridede lives in New Jersey and is a junior studying computer engineering at the University of Washington – Seattle. “My friend told me about the internship opportunity, and I found it a good chance to learn and reflect on my knowledge in real-world projects. I am passionate about technology and want to focus on embedded systems and hardware, so this internship is a great fit for my interests and passions. In addition, this internship being online was a plus for me since I could attend the meetings wherever I went. I hope to learn more about embedded software with low-level languages and become familiar with the tools being used in this profession. My main goal is to become more familiar with the professional environment and learn the skills necessary for real-world projects. I am most excited about completing an actual project that we learn from scratch and apply on cFS. I look forward to becoming more familiar with Git, Linux, and C++. I already knew them, but I want to become more confident with using these tools and use them with more complex projects. I've always hoped to join a technology company after graduation, so this internship is a fantastic opportunity for me to gain insights into the professional environment. It's preparing me for a career in this industry and helping me adapt to its demands. I like photography, playing soccer, and going hiking. My favorite movie is “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. I watch the trilogy every year and read the books too. I would like to see New Zealand, especially Hobbiton Village”. As our internship concludes, we thank you for welcoming our interns with us! It’s clear to us that these individuals are the minds that will shape the future. This is just the beginning of the incredible impact they will make!  #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #cFSinternship #spotlightseries

Celebrating all things SmallSat in Logan, UT! #smallsatellite 🛰️ Red Canyon Engineering & Software Barry Hamilton Kristin Thomas

Introducing our next pair of bright young professionals participating in the inaugural Red Canyon cFS Internship! For week 5, please meet Ben Rogers and Mason O.! Ben Rogers is from Denver, CO and is currently attending CU Boulder for Aerospace Engineering and attempting to double major in Quantum Engineering. “I heard about the internship from Barry Hamilton! My passion in Aerospace is deep space exploration and especially working on probes that would explore planets like Enceladus, Titan, or Europa. Hearing that this internship would be learning cFS deeply motivated me to apply especially as I have gained significant proficiency in C++ this last year in university. I am always looking to improve my coding skills but more importantly I am looking to understand the process behind how cFS is utilized. I don’t know if we will have the opportunity to but I am also always looking to hone my skills in working with other engineers in a collaborative setting. Not only does proficiency in cFS provide a valuable skill but the preparation that this internship provides for us interns makes me hope that I will be able to properly become a part of the Red Canyon family as I continue to gain experience and knowledge. I swim competitively and have for 14 years and am continuing to swim in college. My other hobbies include anything nerdy. I play video games, have played Dungeons and Dragons nearly weekly for over a decade, and also very involved with painting miniatures for Warhammer 40k which I have also been 3d printing miniatures for using my resin printer. My favorite book will probably always be Ready Player One and my favorite movie is Back to the Future, but I love the Lord of the Rings series as well”. Mason O. is from Colorado Springs, CO and in May he graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a minor in Mathematics. “My mother knows Barry Hamilton and encouraged me to apply for this internship. I am excited to learn more about cFS and some real use cases of the software that we will be learning about. I was motivated to apply for this internship because I have always been interested in space travel, and this will allow me to get a look into the industry. I would like to apply some physics concepts in this internship and hopefully see how physics and math are accounted for and calculated when using software such as cFS. I see this internship helping me land my first full time job in tech by expanding my skills and knowledge as well as giving me some experience in how an open-source repo can be used on a large scale. I love the outdoors and love to swim and hike. My favorite sport is Mixed Martial Arts, I watch it nearly every day and try to train it as much as I can. I also have been wanting to go to Colombia for about a year now (specifically Medellín), part of the reason I want to go is because I have always loved warm weather and Medellín is known as the city of eternal spring”!

Introducing our next pair of bright young professionals participating in the inaugural Red Canyon cFS Internship! For week 4, please meet Eric Kim and Kyra Kinnersley! Eric Kim lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is currently attending Georgia Tech as an Aerospace Engineering major while also pursuing a minor in Computer Science. “I heard about this internship through a connection at Red Canyon. I was motivated to apply because I want to learn more about cFS, which seems like a perfect mix of my AE and CS interests. From this internship, I hope to gain an understanding of what cFS is and how it’s used in the aerospace industry. I’m excited about the small group and teaching aspects of this internship, as I think I can learn a lot from it. I’m looking to improve my C/C++ skills and gain an understanding of how cFS works, how we can develop apps for it, and how it connects with spacecraft. As an AE major with an interest in CS, I see cFS and companies like Red Canyon as potential career paths, and I want to use this internship to learn more about this field and how it aligns with my interests. I like to spend time with my pet dog, Ben, go hiking, and play games. I’m also currently learning how to fly! If I could go anywhere, it would probably be Iceland. I haven’t been there, and it seems like a cool place to visit. I also like to collect maps and pamphlets from places I travel to”. Kyra Kinnersley is from Denver, CO, and a double major in Computer Science and Data Science/ Machine Learning at MSU Denver. “I heard about this internship through a social event where I met some of the team and got to hear what Red Canyon and cFS is all about! I wanted to apply for this internship because it’s always been a dream of mine to work in the aerospace industry. Learning cFS is such a unique opportunity. From this internship I not only hope to improve my software writing skills but also learn what goes into programming flight systems. I am most excited about working with the other interns and learning flight software with the team. A specific skill I would like to develop during this internship is getting more comfortable switching between languages since we are working mostly in C and Python and most of my experience is in Java. This internship is a great opportunity to get experience in the aerospace industry. I definitely think cFS is a really amazing and unique skill to have. I hope to continue on with it after graduation! Outside of this internship some of my hobbies/ interests include teaching Pilates and traveling. This summer I am traveling to 5 different countries! If I could travel anywhere in the world I would travel to Singapore. My dad is from Singapore, and I’ve always wanted to go so, hopefully one day soon I’ll get over there! I also can speak fluent German and lived there until 6th grade”! #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #cFSinternship #spotlightseries

Introducing our next pair of bright young professionals participating in the inaugural Red Canyon cFS Internship! For week 3, please meet William Colburn and Berat Ezgin! William Colburn, who goes by Liam, is attending Oregon State University from the Cascades campus in Bend, Oregon. “I moved here three years ago, and before that I was in Jacksonville, Florida. I’m currently studying for a degree in Computer Science. Dan Sivertson, who works at Red Canyon, told me about the internship and highly suggested I apply. It’s been my goal to work at an internship this summer to gain experience before I graduate in a year, and aerospace is such an exciting field, so this seemed like a great opportunity. I am really excited to learn how cFS works and practice using it, since it’s code that NASA created and has been used on real projects. I also hope to gain general experience working with code. In my free time, I enjoy learning new songs on guitar and reading fiction, especially science-fiction. I also enjoy going on hikes and had the opportunity to live in Thessaloniki, Greece for two years when I was eleven years old”. Berat Ezgin came from Turkey 4 years ago, and is currently attending the University of Washington majoring in pre-engineering and wants to continue on to computer engineering. “I heard about this internship through my friends and family. I wanted to participate in this internship to learn more about coding, software, company databases, and how companies set their system. I want to develop my coding skills and software learning skills. Also, I want to improve my skills to develop something for companies, and learning more about working environments. I definitely see this internship assisting me through my career by helping me understand how can I work effectively in engineering area, it will help me to gain experience. In my free time, I love everything about soccer, I was a professional midfielder player in academia in my hometown until high school. My favorite movies are Amazing Spiderman 1 and 2, I have been watching them since my childhood and I love it. Also, I want to live in Norway after some point in my life because I like the atmosphere and peacefulness in Norway”. #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #cFSInternship #spotlightseries

Introducing our next pair of bright young professionals participating in the inaugural Red Canyon cFS Internship! For week 2, please meet Mirac Azra Ezgin and Jakob Bindas! Mirac Azra Ezgin is originally from Turkey but have been living in Seattle for 4 years. She is attending the University of Washington, where she is majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Math. “I heard about the internship program from a friend of mine. I was very excited to apply because I want to get experience and learn flight software. During this internship, I want to get better at using Core Flight System techniques and improve my software development skills. I see this internship helping me in my future career by giving me real experience in software development. It will teach me important skills that I can use in any tech job I get later on. Some of my hobbies are listening to music, building with Legos, doing puzzles, and traveling. My favorite movie is The Notebook, and I would love to go to Italy because it has amazing places to see and a rich history.” Jakob Bindas is from Irwin, PA and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2024 with a B.S. in Physics & Astronomy and a minor in Computer Science. “I heard about Red Canyon’s internship program from a peer in Pitt’s Rocketry Team. Towards the end of my undergraduate studies, I realized I wanted to focus more on software development related to space and thought this would be an excellent segue into the industry. I am looking to develop my skills in embedded software development while improving my skills of reading and understanding existing code that I can use as a starting point for my own development. I am hoping this internship is going to allow me to get my foot in the door for an industry position. I am making the switch from a physics & astronomy background and think this is an excellent opportunity for me to gain experience related to software development in the aerospace industry. I play a lot of volleyball in my free time. Over the summer I am playing in two grass volleyball tournaments in Pennsylvania. I was a member of Pitt’s Men’s Club Volleyball Team for the past 3 years as well. If I could travel anywhere I would travel back to Hawai’i as I spent 10 weeks on O’ahu last summer for an astronomy research program and I was only able to explore O’ahu and a little bit of Hawai’i. I also have eight dogs back home, one lab and seven huskies.” #ExploringOtherPlanetsImprovingOurOwn #cFSinternship #Spotlightseries