Michael Gazarik, a vice president at Ball Aerospace, took a three-year seat at the NASA Advisory Council's technology, innovation and engineering committee in July.
Read More »Ball Aerospace to Develop New Heliophysics Spacecraft for NASA
NASA has selected Ball Aerospace to develop a spacecraft that would help the agency study the atmosphere's outermost region that transitions into space as part of the agency's heliophysics science mission of opportunity. The company said Tuesday it will build the Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere or GLIDE spacecraft that would track the hydrogen-based ultraviolet light found in the region.
Read More »Ball Aerospace Delivers Ozone Mapping Tech for NOAA’s Next Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite; Makenzie Lystrup Quoted
A Ball Aerospace-built ozone layer monitoring instrument has been shipped to a manufacturing facility for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite.
Read More »NASA Taps Ball Aerospace to Support Land Imaging Tech Studies
Ball Aerospace has been selected to conduct three research projects to explore sustainable land imaging platforms that could support Earth observation satellite operations under a joint NASA-U.S. Geological Survey program.
Read More »Lockheed, Ball Aerospace Conclude Transmission Test for Space Force Antenna; Maria Demaree Quoted
A team comprised of Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace has completed transmission testing for a next-generation antenna system that will serve as part of the U.S. Space Force's modernized satellite control network.
Read More »Ball Aerospace, With Booz Allen, Wins Contract to Support GC3 Systems; Mark Healy, Michael Johnston Quoted
Ball Aerospace, which partnered with Booz Allen Hamilton, has been awarded a contract by the Space Rapid Capabilities Office (SpRCO) to serve as the prime system integrator for the SpRCO Ground Command, Control and Communications (GC3) system, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. GC3 will support larger tactical command and control enterprise for the U.S. Space Force.
Read More »Ball Aerospace-Built Smallsat Completes On-Orbit Testing for NASA Propellant Mission; Makenzie Lystrup Quoted
Ball Aerospace has concluded on-orbit testing activities for a small satellite containing an Air Force Research Laboratory-developed nontoxic propellant as part of a NASA effort to deploy sustainable and environmentally friendly spacecraft.
Read More »Ball Aerospace Concludes Imaging Satellite Flights for NASA-USGS ‘Landsat’ Program; Makenzie Lystrup Quoted
Ball Aerospace has sent two small land imaging instruments to orbit for final flights as part of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat program.
Read More »Air Force Taps Ball Aerospace for IR Focal Plane Array Characterization Project
Ball Aerospace has won a potential $7.7M contract from the U.S. Air Force to explore methods for analyzing the characteristics of infrared-based focal plane array technology and related devices.
Read More »Northrop-Ball Team Hits OPIR Satellite Payload Design Milestone
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.
Read More »Space Force Reviews Northrop, Raytheon Payload Designs for Missile Warning Satellite Program
The U.S. Space Force has reviewed the designs of two mission payloads that Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman-Ball Aerospace team separately proposed to a missile warning satellite program.
Read More »Ball Aerospace Concludes Weather Monitoring Satellite Critical Design Review
Ball Aerospace has cleared a critical design review for a satellite mission built to deliver environmental actionable intelligence for military operations.
Read More »University of Arizona Receives Ball Aerospace-Built Cryostat for NASA Instrument
Ball Aerospace has handed over to the University of Arizona a low-heat leak tank designed to support a NASA balloon mission throughout its entire flight.
Read More »Ball Aerospace-Made Air Pollution Sensor Enters Space
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute has launched a Ball Aerospace-made spectrometer that will monitor air pollution in the Asia Pacific.
Read More »ULA Opens Rover, Rocket Payload Design Competition; Rob Strain Quoted
United Launch Alliance has unveiled a competition that encourages participants to submit payload and rover design proposals that will be launched through a refurbished rocket.
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