The Korea Aerospace Research Institute has launched a Ball Aerospace-made spectrometer that will monitor air pollution in the Asia Pacific.

Telesat has partnered with General Dynamics and Ball Aerospace to demonstrate space-based data exploitation and processing approaches with the use of commercial satellite technology. The partnerships will use Telesat-built satellite and network emulation systems for live demo events in support of the U.S. Air Force's Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations program.

Makenzie Lystrup, Ball Aerospace’s vice president and general manager for civil space, has been inducted as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace have landed $3.6M and $2.3M contracts, respectively, to build path-agnostic communications capacities through commercial space internet systems for the U.S. Air Force.

Ball Aerospace has partnered with Microsoft to demonstrate a data processing prototype for the U.S. Air Force that will rapidly transmit information from low-Earth orbit satellites to data centers through array and cloud technologies.

Ball Aerospace has delivered a camera lens assembly to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for installation into a ground telescope intended to observe astronomical phenomena and provide a visualization of the universe.

United Launch Alliance has partnered with Airborne Systems and RUAG to support a STEM education program that seeks to expose students and interns to space launch operations.

Ball Aerospace has cleared a critical design review for a small explorer mission that will help NASA measure the polarization of cosmic x-rays in space.

Ball Aerospace has commenced on-orbit trials of the non-toxic AF-M315E propellant as part of NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission.

United Launch Alliance will lift off K-12 student-built payloads on an intern-made sport rocket for an academic engagement event on July 20 at Fort Carson, Colorado in celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary.

Ball Aerospace has deployed a small satellite for launching aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy vehicle as part of NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission to demonstrate AF-M315E, a low-toxic “green” monopropellant developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Ball Aerospace has handed over to NASA a small eco-friendly satellite that will test a new, low-toxic fuel blend as part of the agency’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM).