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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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Landsat 9 will house the Operational Land Imager 2 from Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductSep 28, 2020Landsat Next likely to bear little resemblance to its predecessors

The November 2018 contract to Ball Aerospace is for one WSF-M satellite with contract options to procure a second satellite.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 28, 2020Space Force says it has a plan to fix gaps in weather data

GPIM hosts a new multi-layer insulation technology developed by Ball Aerospace and Quest Thermal Group under a NASA Small Business Innovative Research grant.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductAug 3, 2020Ball Aerospace wrapping up green propellant smallsat demo mission

Ball Aerospace built the GPIM satellite on its BCP-100 smallsat platform with five thrusters supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 3, 2020Ball Aerospace wrapping up green propellant smallsat demo mission

Ball Aerospace won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2,320,000 for weather satellite and instrument design studies.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJun 30, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

Ball Aerospace won a contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On satellite destined for Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJun 30, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

Ball Aerospace built the NASA–NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, which launched in 2011.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJun 30, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

Under the BOWIE Compact Hyperspectral Infrared Observations study, Ball Aerospace will investigate technology and performance tradeoffs for a hyperspectral infrared sounding instrument designed for small satellites in geostationary orbit.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJun 30, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

Ball Aerospace built the first Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft, which launched in 2017.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJun 30, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

Ball Aerospace is working with Computational Physics Inc. to compare cost and performance of strategies for a dedicated auroral imager operating in a highly elliptical Tundra orbit under the Auroral Imager in Tundra study.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJun 30, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

Under the SWFO-L1 contract, Ball Aerospace will design and manufacture the satellite bus, integrate government-furnished instruments, perform testing, help train the flight operations team, check out the satellite in orbit, and support mission operations.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductJun 25, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA space weather contract

Ball Aerospace won a $96,900,000 contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) satellite destined for Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJun 25, 2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA space weather contract

Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon and the Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team as subcontractors for the Next-Gen OPIR mission payloads in October 2018.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralMay 25, 2020Two payloads qualified for U.S. Space Force early warning satellites

GEO-KOMPSAT-2B has a mass of 3,400 kg and carries an ocean imaging payload from Airbus Defence and Space and an environmental spectrometer from Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductFeb 18, 2020Japanese communications satellite and South Korean weather satellite launch on Ariane 5

NASA, using the Air Force’s Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle, tasked Maxar with installing the Ball Aerospace-built TEMPO payload on a geostationary satellite.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductFeb 3, 2020Maxar says last year’s unnamed GEO order is new Intelsat satellite

MethaneSAT will use X-SAT, Blue Canyon Technologies’ largest offered spacecraft bus, to carry a methane-detection payload from Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductJan 6, 2020Blue Canyon Technologies to build its largest satellite to date for MethaneSAT

CIRiS was built by Ball Aerospace and is focused on improving calibration of infrared images.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductDec 10, 2019NASA Earth Science leaders anticipate low-cost launch options

Ball Aerospace received a $2,300,000 contract, partially funded by the U.S. Army, to test a phased array on a ground vehicle so a single terminal could communicate with LEO, MEO, and GEO satellites.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 5, 2019Air Force enthusiastic about commercial LEO broadband after successful tests

Ball Aerospace is evolving mature technologies to retain original heritage while being applicable to commercial customers.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 10, 2019Manufacturers say wider range of satellites they build is stressing mission assurance

Jeff Osterkamp is the vice president of security and mission assurance at Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 10, 2019Manufacturers say wider range of satellites they build is stressing mission assurance
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