A Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. land imaging instrument launched into space Monday for a NASA–U.S. Geological Survey satellite program to observe spectral data in infrared bands. United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, launched the eighth Landsat Data Continuity Mission on an Atlas V …

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has built a new manufacturing center for building satellites under contracts from NASA and the Defense Department. The company said it completed a 90,000-square-foot expansion project at its integration facility in Boulder, Colo., finishing work that started in 2005. This expansion complements another expansion project …

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has wrapped up performance tests of a subsystem for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope under a contract with Northrop Grumman. Ball said it is the principal subcontractor to Northrop for the telescope’s optical technology and mirror system and has tested the aft-optics subsystem since May 2012. …

A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. team has reviewed the design of a weather monitoring satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said it reviewed the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft before more than 100 representatives from the agencies and instrument providers for the JPSS-1 spacecraft. …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp has integrated four new payloads and a spacecraft de-orbit module into the STPSat-3, according to a company statement.    “With a build time of 47 days for STPSat-3 and 18 days for integration, our spacecraft bus continues to demonstrate its rapid production and deployment capability,” said David …

Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. presented an F-35 cockpit demonstrator Wednesday at Ball Aerospace’s antenna manufacturing facility in Westminster, Colo. Ball Aerospace said in a release attendees were able to test the cockpit in a simulator that provides a look at the jet’s sensor fusion technology and  …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will carry five payloads and a de-orbit module onboard a spacecraft the company will launch in 2013, the company announced Tuesday. President and CEO David Taylor said in a release the company built the STPSat-3 spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force in 47 days. He …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will continue to operate a series of satellites that provide interfacing to the Air Force for an additional year. The company announced Friday it will continue to provide space vehicle support to the STPSat-2 spacecraft through Feb. 1, 2013. Ball Aerospace CEO and President David Taylor …

ATK provided hardware to both a Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture for a Monday rocket launch and for a satellite the rocket carried into space. The United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket carried an ATK composite heat shield and propellant tank and the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite carries ATK hardware …

Oceana Energy Company and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division have collaborated to develop and test a hydrokinetic device intended to supply power in coastal communities. The U.S. Navy said Tuesday Carderock and Oceana produced the in-stream hydrokinetic device that works to gather ocean currents, tides or river flows as part of a cooperative research-and-development agreement …

Deloitte and NASA‘s Johnson Space Center will sign strategic alliance agreement Thursday to provide risk management tools and services to the oil and gas industry. NASA aims for the partnership to update systems use to manage risks for missions in harsh and remote environments, the space agency said Thursday. The …

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built satellite, NASA’s NPP, has been successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket early this morning. This is the first Earth-observing satellite built to measure both global climate and key weather data. Ball Aerospace built …

Rob Strain, president of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., will participate in a panel discussion on carrying out space missions in a budget-constrained environment at a space industry conference that kicked off Monday. The “Mission Assurance in a Budget-Constrained Environment” will take place on Wednesday at the National Space Symposium in …

A sensor built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. that launched in February has taken its first images for a mission to capture photos of coastal regions, polar ice, islands and continental areas. Ball Aerospace’s Operational Land Imager and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Thermal infrared sensor took photos …

An ITT Exelis subsidiary is providing software to NASA for a satellite launched Monday to conduct research into agriculture, mapping, geology, forestry, regional planning, surveillance and education. Exelis Visual Information Solutions has provided the ENVI software for all previous Landsat program missions and has updated the program to extract metadata …