Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will incorporate a data communication payload on a satellite the federal government will use to predict weather and measure atmospheric conditions. The company said the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 satellite will have a five-instrument payload and use two data networks, one of them having a …

BAE Systems Inc., Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and Dell have announced their roles in helping NASA deliver and land the Curiosity Rover on Mars late Sunday night. BAE’s U.S. subsidiary built the rover’s X-ray spectrometer, a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system, organic sample analysis systems and systems for detecting radiation …

A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built spacecraft is being employed by NASA in order to locate potentially hazardous asteroids near the Earth. Ball announced Thursday that in using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, NASA has found there to be nearly 4,700 of the asteroids, the closest of which comes within …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has proposed a solar electric propulsion mission to NASA under a contract awarded in September 2011, the company announced Monday. ATK also helped develop the plans for demonstrating the solar technologies and infrastructure require to sustain human space exploration. Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman …

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 …

Aviation Week and Space Technology has bestowed a Laureate Award to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. for helping NASA identify potential earth-sized planets as the prime contractor on the Kepler mission. The company built the spacecraft for the mission and in December 2011 identified at least one planet that exists …

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. completed installing a set of auxiliary mirrors for the Northrop Grumman-built James Webb Space Telescope and Northrop will start the next phase of tests in May. Northrop said it will test the telescope’s ability to withstand the rocket launch and the cold temperatures of space. …

Recent reports have indicated that the U.S. military sees a day where there will be live video tracking missile launchers, which would require space telescopes hovering in geosynchronous orbit capable of capturing real-time footage of any place on Earth. Space.com reported that Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is working to make that …

  Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered two phased array antenna engineering development units for the Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The Orion PAA design leverages three dozen Ball Aerospace phased array designs delivered for space, airborne, ground and marine applications, as well as an additional …

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 …

Ball Aerospace and Technology has named Steve Smith director of space control and special missions. In his new role, Smith will assist Ball’s national defense business unit. Smith joins Ball after a 24-year career in the Air Force, retiring with the rank of colonel. His most recent position was commander …

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has completed development of prototype launch vehicle flight computers that are equipped to bring safety and reliability to future human spaceflight systems, the company announced Monday. Ball Aerospace financed the computers and based them on deployed units now being used at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight …

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.

The team of Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace passed an early design test of a mission payload technology for potential use with the U.S. Air Force's future missile warning satellite system.