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Thales Alenia Space won a contract from Ball Aerospace to provide key communications components for NASA’s NEO Surveyor spacecraft destined for the Earth–Sun Lagrange point 1.
The final transaction to acquire Ball Aerospace is expected to close at a purchase price of $5.5 billion, approximately £4,400,000,000.
Ball Aerospace partnered with MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund, on the MethaneSAT mission.
Makenzie Lystrup was not involved in the GXS procurement and had divested any financial interests in Ball Aerospace by the time NASA selected Ball for the GXS award.
Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics, and Omni Federal each won $9,700,000 contracts from the U.S. Space Force to develop competing designs of next-generation ground systems.
Under the contract, Ball Aerospace will build and deliver one GeoXO sounder, integrate it with the next-generation NOAA weather satellite, and provide support for the first flight instrument.
Ball Aerospace won a $489,600,000 contract to deliver a sounder for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.
Ball Aerospace won a $486,900,000 contract to deliver a sounder for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.
Work on the GeoXO Sounder contract will be completed at Ball Aerospace’s facility in Boulder, Colorado; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Ball Aerospace contract scope includes supplying and maintaining the instrument ground support equipment and supporting mission operations at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland.
Ball Aerospace is the prime contractor for WSF-M and designed, built, and integrated the spacecraft bus, ground data processing software, and the Microwave Imager (MWI).
Ball Aerospace will perform work for the GeoXO sounder at its facility in Boulder, Colorado, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Ball Aerospace will build and deliver one GeoXO sounder and integrate it with the next-generation NOAA weather satellite.
Ball Aerospace is the prime contractor for the WSF-M project and designed, built, and integrated the spacecraft bus, ground data processing software, and the Microwave Imager (MWI).
Since DEUCSI began in 2017, companies that have won contracts under the program include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, SES, Iridium, and SpaceX.
Dr. Alberto Conti will partner with customers and stakeholders to achieve mission priorities and define next-generation architectures through strategies aligned with the Ball Aerospace strategic plan.
Since the Air Force selected Ball Aerospace in 2017, Ball Aerospace has received awards worth about $417,300,000 for WSF-M.
Ball Aerospace was listed as the original spacecraft subcontractor for Lunar Trailblazer when NASA selected the mission in 2019.
Ball Aerospace is partnering with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to develop the Wide Field Instrument for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Ball Aerospace selected Rocket Lab to manufacture the Solar Array Panel for NASA’s GLIDE mission spacecraft planned to launch in 2025.