BAE Systems is a British multinational aerospace, military, and information security company that operates in the space industry. They design and deliver solutions for civil and commercial space agencies, specializing in radiation-hardened electronics, antenna design, and synthetic aperture radar processing for use in Earth orbit, near space, and deep space missions. BAE Systems partners with organizations like Airbus Defence and Space and LMO Space, and their customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial space entities. They provide services such as satellite manufacturing, on-orbit operations, secure data delivery, and development of AI/ML systems for space platforms.
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Under the OCX contract, BAE Systems will design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, verify and evaluate the new ocean color instrument.
BAE Systems is developing the GeoXO air quality sensor under a $365,000,000 contract awarded 2024-05-01.
BAE Systems will support 10 years of in-orbit operations and five years of in-orbit storage for each GeoXO Ocean Color Instrument (OCX).
BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., won a $450 contract to develop an ocean-color instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next geostationary weather constellation.
The cost-plus-award-fee contract dated 2024-05-20 directs BAE Systems to develop two flight instruments to analyze ocean color for the Geostationary Extended Operations (GeoXO) program.
ACX is the second instrument BAE Systems has been contracted to develop for the GeoXO mission.
BAE Systems developed South Korea’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) and NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instruments, which are currently the only UV/VIS hyperspectral imagers in geostationary orbit.
Building multiple instruments for GeoXO will allow BAE Systems teams to collaborate across programs and achieve a more efficient development process.
BAE Systems has been selected by NASA to develop the Atmospheric Composition instrument (ACX) for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite constellation.
The BAE Systems-developed ACX instrument is a hyperspectral imager that will take hourly air quality measurements across ultraviolet to visible wavelengths.
BAE Systems was also selected to build the GeoXO Sounder (GXS) instrument.
BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., won a $365,000,000 contract on 2024-05-01 to develop an air quality sensor for U.S. geostationary weather satellites.
CloudSat continued providing measurements for nearly 18 years largely due to operational support from the BAE Systems team that modified spacecraft operations to address battery and reaction wheel failures.
BAE Systems designed and built the CloudSat spacecraft bus.
BAE Systems designed and built the spacecraft bus for the CloudSat mission.
BAE Systems built the MWI for WSF-M, designed and built the WSF-M satellite bus, and led all environmental and mission compatibility testing for the mission.
BAE Systems was awarded a follow-on contract to build a second WSF-M satellite that will be completed in 2026.
BAE Systems designed and built the Carruthers satellite bus and led integration and environmental testing for the mission.
BAE Systems completed integration of the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory's ultraviolet spectrometer onto the satellite bus.
BAE Systems completed the integration of the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory’s ultraviolet spectrometer onto the satellite bus.