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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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WSF-M is a 1,200-kilogram satellite centered on a microwave imager instrument developed by Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 24, 2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites

Ball Aerospace planned to complete production, integration, and test of the first WSF-M satellite in 2023 for shipment to the launch site.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 24, 2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites

Ball Aerospace will continue to work with NASA and Maxar to support spacecraft integration and testing for TEMPO.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 21, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Spectrometer For NASA’s TEMPO Mission Enroute To Spacecraft Integration

Ball Aerospace completed the TEMPO instrument in 2018 and delivered it to NASA Langley Research Center after a final acceptance review.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 21, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Spectrometer For NASA’s TEMPO Mission Enroute To Spacecraft Integration

Ball Aerospace built TEMPO in tandem with the Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS).

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 21, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Spectrometer For NASA’s TEMPO Mission Enroute To Spacecraft Integration

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft completed a series of demonstrations showing commercial cloud computing can process and securely deliver actionable information to ground stations, command centers, and battlefield users.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 20, 2021Microsoft & Ball Aerospace demonstrate cloud potential for government customers

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft completed a series of demonstrations showing the viability of using commercial cloud computing to process and securely deliver actionable information to users in ground stations, command centers, and battlefield environments.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 19, 2021The Team Of Ball Aerospace + Microsoft Complete Cloud Demos That Securely Deliver Actionable Intelligence To Warfighters

Ball Aerospace processed Azure-hosted simulated OPIR data using a Ball-developed event-driven architecture and disseminated results to multiple endpoints.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 19, 2021The Team Of Ball Aerospace + Microsoft Complete Cloud Demos That Securely Deliver Actionable Intelligence To Warfighters

Tom McIntyre advocates for Ball Aerospace’s defense and intelligence programs with Congress and the Executive Branch.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Two New Washington D.C. Directors’ Experience Will Support Washington Operations

Tom McIntyre has been appointed as the director of Government Relations at Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Two New Washington D.C. Directors’ Experience Will Support Washington Operations

Dr. Raha Hakimdavar will lead efforts to advance Ball Aerospace's civil space programs.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Two New Washington D.C. Directors’ Experience Will Support Washington Operations

Ball Aerospace has appointed Dr. Raha Hakimdavar as the director of Space Science.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralApr 14, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Two New Washington D.C. Directors’ Experience Will Support Washington Operations

RUAG Space delivered a first spacecraft container to Ball Aerospace in 2019.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMar 15, 2021Ball Aerospace Orders Three RUAG Space Satellite Containers

The RUAG Space navigation receiver for WSF-M will be built in Vienna, Austria and is scheduled for delivery to Ball Aerospace in September 2021.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative PlanMar 5, 2021U.S. DoD weather satellite will fly with navigation receiver from RUAG space

The LEORIX navigation receiver for WSF-M will be built in Vienna, Austria and is scheduled for delivery to Ball Aerospace in September 2021.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMar 4, 2021U.S. DoD Weather Satellite Will Fly With Navigation Receiver From RUAG Space

Ball Aerospace has been selected by NASA to provide a solar sail for the Solar Cruiser mission.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 11, 2021Ball Aerospace Sails into Space With Test “Sailcraft” for NASA’s Solar Propulsion Technology Demonstration

Ball Aerospace will integrate and test the satellite bus with the solar sail system to form the completed Sailcraft.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductFeb 11, 2021Ball Aerospace Sails into Space With Test “Sailcraft” for NASA’s Solar Propulsion Technology Demonstration

The Ball Configurable Platform spacecraft line is designed for flexible, cost-effective applications using a common spacecraft bus and standard payload interfaces to reduce cost, streamline payload accommodation, and minimize delivery time.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductDec 10, 2020Ball Aerospace Supported The NASA SPHEREx Spacecraft PDR

Robert D. Strain and Dr. David Kaufman worked closely throughout 2020 to ensure a business, employee, and customer transition at Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductNov 5, 2020Ball Aerospace Names New President

Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, and L3Harris received contracts from the Defense Innovation Unit in April 2019 to develop phased array antenna prototypes.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 29, 2020Space Force weighing options to modernize ground antennas for military satellites
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