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Ball Aerospace Increases Colorado Footprint With Facility Opening, Center Expansion; Dave Kaufman Quoted

Ball Aerospace has expanded its presence in Colorado with the opening of a new 160,000-square-foot facility that will focus on building payloads and providing post-launch support for various space programs. The new Payload Development Facility adds advanced integration and test areas, a mission support center, more offices and cleanroom space to the existing Broomfield Research […] More

by Angeline Leishman October 20, 2021, 11:48 am
in Contract Awards, News, Space News

NASA Taps Ball Aerospace to Study Hyperspectral Infrared Instrument

Ball Aerospace has received a potential $8 million contract from NASA to study the geostationary Sounder instrument in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary and Extended Observations program. The space agency said Thursday that under the firm-fixed-price contract, the company will conduct the definition-phase A study of the hyperspectral infrared instrument intended […] More

by Carol Collins October 1, 2021, 11:54 am
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5 Contractors to Provide NGA With GEOINT Analytic Services; David Gauthier Quoted

Five companies will compete for delivery orders under a five-year, $29 million contract to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency with analytic services aimed at addressing economic-related geospatial intelligence challenges. BAE Systems, Ball Aerospace, BlackSky Holdings, Continental Mapping Consultants and Royce Geospatial Consultants will deliver capabilities that leverage artificial intelligence, machine-learning and nontraditional GEOINT sources, NGA […] More

by Carol Collins September 30, 2021, 11:56 am
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Northrop-Made Satellite Launches for Land Imagery Effort of NASA, US Geological Survey

NASA has launched a Northrop Grumman-made satellite to expand an existing system that tracks changes on the Earth’s land as part of an effort initiated in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey. Landsat 9 launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, the space agency said Tuesday. […] More

by Nichols Martin September 28, 2021, 11:47 am
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Ball Aerospace to Help NASA Study Architectures for Earth Imagery Satellites

NASA has tasked Ball Aerospace to study two architecture concepts designed to modernize instruments of Earth imagery satellites. The company said Monday it will assess how constellation and single satellite concepts can accommodate new spectral bands and orbit parameters as well as enhanced spatial resolution for the Landsat Next program. Ball will seek to determine […] More

by Nichols Martin August 31, 2021, 11:27 am
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Northrop-Ball Aerospace Team Wraps Up Critical Design Review for Infrared Satellite Payload

A Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace team has concluded the critical design review for an infrared-based satellite mission payload designed to meet the U.S. Space Force’s national security requirements. Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared satellites, whose development is led by Lockheed Martin, are designed to alert the U.S. military on missile threats and would succeed the […] More

by Nichols Martin August 6, 2021, 11:15 am
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Ball Aerospace Moves Sun Monitoring Satellite Development Into Critical Design Phase

Ball Aerospace has concluded the preliminary design review of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spacecraft meant to continuously observe the sun’s outermost atmospheric layer and measure upstream solar wind for data collection efforts. The company said Thursday completing Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1‘s PDR allows the spacecraft to enter a critical design phase for […] More

by Nichols Martin July 30, 2021, 8:50 am
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NASA Webb Telescope Completes 3 Testing Milestones

NASA has announced the completion of three testing milestones for its James Webb Space Telescope as the agency prepares for the observatory’s launch later this year aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The agency said Thursday one of the milestones is the final testing of the space telescope’s deployable tower assembly, which separates the mirrors and […] More

by Jane Edwards July 20, 2021, 11:52 am
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Ball Aerospace VP Michael Gazarik Assumes Seat at NASA Advisory Council Committee

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.

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by Matthew Nelson February 23, 2021, 3:44 am
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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.

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by Nichols Martin February 10, 2021, 8:08 am
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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.

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by Matthew Nelson October 8, 2020, 10:06 am
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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.

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by Nichols Martin September 15, 2020, 10:09 am

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