RAVAN
Blue Canyon Technologies' experience with cubesats includes the RAVAN mission (above) for the Applied Physics Lab. Credit: BCT

WASHINGTON — PlanetiQ announced June 24 that it has selected a Colorado company to build its planned constellation of small satellites to provide weather data, with the first satellites to be launched in late 2016.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...