Carol Lane is Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Federal Relations for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. She is responsible for customer and market cultivation and deals with federal government agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the Washington, D.C. area. Before …

Ball Corporation has appointed Daniel Fisher, senior vice president, as the company's president and member of its board of directors, effective 2021. Lisa Pauley, SVP of HR and administration, and Scott Morrison, SVP and chief financial officer, were also promoted to Ball's executive vice presidents and will retain their current responsibilities.

Ball Corp. announced on Thursday that Todd Penegor, president and CEO of the Wendy’s Company, has been elected to serve as a director of the corporation.

The Aerospace Industries Association has named at least 20 executives from the government contracting sector to its board of governors for 2018. Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, will succeed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg as chairman of AIA, the trade group said Monday. William Brown, chairman, president and CEO …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has won a NASA contract to perform a concept study on how to carry out manufacturing, modularity, testing and scheduling work for a future infrared telescope the space agency intends to have a wider view than that of Hubble. Scheduled for launch in mid 2020s, the …

Aerojet Rocketdyne and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., announced recently that they have completed a study on the development of a common upper stage service for NASA, designed for enhanced performance of NASA Launch Services and paving the way for additional missions. The new common upper stage has the potential to …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has transported a remote sensing spacecraft to a launch facility in California for DigitalGlobe’s earth observations and geospatial data business. The new WorldView-3 satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, where it is scheduled for launch on board a United Launch Alliance-built rocket in …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will integrate a Lockheed Martin-built instrument designed to measure global energy balance into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. Lockheed designed the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System to provide environmental data for forecasting seasonal climates and the instrument is scheduled to …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has performed internal environment assessments on a remote-sensing satellite the company developed for DigitalGlobe and designed to collect Earth imagery. DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 spacecraft features a Ball Aerospace technology that is built to monitor atmospheric conditions and photograph objects through haze, soot and dust, DigitalGlobe said …

A team comprised of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a thruster with “green” fuel technology in a space lab environment as part of NASA‘s Green Propellant Infusion Mission program. The project’s goal is to demonstrate the AF-M315E eco-friendly propulsion system as an alternative for the …

A NASA spacecraft carrying a Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built weather radiometer has been placed in orbit to start measuring rainfall and snowfall levels across the world. The Global Precipitation Imager observatory satellite is spinning at 32 revolutions per minute and works to map global precipitation every three hours, Ball …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has tested new telescope technologies for an Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program which utilizes a lightweight polymer membrane. Ball deployed a 20-meter-diameter telescope in geosynchronous orbit using those technologies as part of DARPA’s Membrane Optic Imager Real-time Exploitation program, Ball Aerospace said Friday. Rob Strain, …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered a precipitation measurement instrument to Japan in preparation for NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement satellite space launch scheduled for next year. The GPM Microwave Imager is a microwave radiometer built to capture data on worldwide weather phenomena at three-hour intervals after the launch of GPM Core …

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. plans to reactivate its survey aircraft in September for NASA’s near-Earth object exploration mission. The refreshed Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft will work to detect and identify near-Earth objects such as asteroids, Ball Aerospace said Wednesday. Jim Oschmann, vice president and general manager for Ball’s …

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has delivered cryogenic flight electronic boxes to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman for installation on the James Webb Space Telescope. The flight electronics aim to work in collocation with the telescope’s 18 hexagonal primary mirror segments at temperatures as low as negative 405.4 degrees …