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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 …
Read More »ATK Hardware Helps Lift Rocket, Mapping Satellite; David Shanahan Comments
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 …
Read More »Ball Providing NASA, Geological Survey Space-Based Earth Imager; David Taylor Comments
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 …
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