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Ball Aerospace

US
commercialFounded 1956
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
www.baesystems.com/en-us/our-company/inc-businesses/space-and-mission-systems
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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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP2/16/2024Thales Alenia Space to supply NEO Surveyor communications equipment

The final transaction to acquire Ball Aerospace is expected to close at a purchase price of $5.5 billion, approximately £4,400,000,000.

ORG RELATIONSHIP2/14/2024BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

Ball Aerospace partnered with MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund, on the MethaneSAT mission.

ORG RELATIONSHIP1/22/2024Webinar Replay | Not Invisible Anymore: How satellites monitor atmospheric methane

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.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE1/4/2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/9/2023Four bidders selected to develop ground systems for U.S. missile-warning satellites

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.

NARRATIVE PLAN9/12/2023Ball Aerospace Wins $489.6 Million Contract to Deliver Next-Gen Weather Satellite Sounder

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/12/2023Ball Aerospace Wins $489.6 Million Contract to Deliver Next-Gen Weather Satellite Sounder

Ball Aerospace won a $486,900,000 contract to deliver a sounder for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/11/2023Ball wins $489.6 million contract to deliver next-generation weather satellite sounder

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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/11/2023NASA selects Ball Aerospace to develop NOAA’s GeoXO sounder instrument

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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/11/2023NASA selects Ball Aerospace to develop NOAA’s GeoXO sounder instrument

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).

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/11/2023Ball Aerospace Successfully Completes Testing on SSC's Weather Monitoring Satellite

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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/11/2023Ball wins $489.6 million contract to deliver next-generation weather satellite sounder

Ball Aerospace will build and deliver one GeoXO sounder and integrate it with the next-generation NOAA weather satellite.

NARRATIVE PLAN9/11/2023Ball wins $489.6 million contract to deliver next-generation weather satellite sounder

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).

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/8/2023Ball Aerospace Completes Testing Weather Monitoring Satellite

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP5/26/2023L3Harris wins $80 million Air Force contract for satcom experiments

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/29/2022Ball Aerospace names a VP + GM for their Civil Space Strategic Business

Since the Air Force selected Ball Aerospace in 2017, Ball Aerospace has received awards worth about $417,300,000 for WSF-M.

NARRATIVE GENERAL11/11/2022Space Force orders new weather satellite from Ball Aerospace

Ball Aerospace was listed as the original spacecraft subcontractor for Lunar Trailblazer when NASA selected the mission in 2019.

ORG RELATIONSHIP8/26/2022Lunar Trailblazer faces NASA review after cost overruns

Ball Aerospace is partnering with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to develop the Wide Field Instrument for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

ORG RELATIONSHIP7/12/2022Ball Aerospace celebrates JWST’s first images + the success of the company’s mirror segments + more…

Ball Aerospace selected Rocket Lab to manufacture the Solar Array Panel for NASA’s GLIDE mission spacecraft planned to launch in 2025.

NARRATIVE PLAN6/9/2022Rocket Lab selected by Ball Aerospace for solar empowerment of NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft
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