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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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In spring 2019 SMC selected three companies—Lockheed Martin teamed with Ball Aerospace, L3Harris, and Atlas Space Operations—to design Multi-Band Multi-Mission prototypes by spring 2020.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 5, 2019Air Force space modernization starts from the ground up

Ball Aerospace built TEMPO alongside the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS), which is scheduled to launch in 2020 on the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s GEO-Kompsat-2B satellite.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJul 22, 2019Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial satellite

Ball Aerospace delivered the TEMPO spectrometer to the NASA Langley Research Center in late 2018.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductJul 22, 2019Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial satellite

COSMIC-2 satellites carry an Ion Velocity Meter built by Ball Aerospace and developed by the University of Texas at Dallas to sense ion velocity, concentration and composition and to measure upper atmosphere electron density.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJun 11, 2019COSMIC-2 weather data key to better forecasts, NOAA says

Ball Aerospace provided support for SpaceNews’ special digital edition covering Satellite 2019.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralMay 14, 2019Download your News from Satellite 2019 digital edition

South Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research plans to launch the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer built by Ball Aerospace on Geostationary Korea Multipurpose Satellite‑2B in 2020.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 13, 2019Dozens of satellites could feed NOAA’s future weather models

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is building the Weather System Follow-on Microwave operational satellite equipped with passive microwave imaging radiometers to monitor ocean winds and cyclone intensity and an energetic charged particle sensor.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralApr 18, 2019Small Air Force microwave sensor to fly on space station

The U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to Ball Aerospace for the Weather System Follow-on — Microwave satellite with a planned 2022 launch.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMar 8, 2019GAO takes weather satellite program off watch list

Ball Aerospace and Maxar Technologies received the 2019-02-03 RFI from the Chilean Air Force.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 11, 2019Chile weighs commercial replacement for lone spy satellite

Ball Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have built commercial imaging satellites providing 50-centimeter or better resolution.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 11, 2019Chile weighs commercial replacement for lone spy satellite

EDF announced on 2019-01-10 that Ball Aerospace and Space Systems Loral had received study contracts with an overall value of $1,500,000 to advance MethaneSAT concepts.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 11, 2019Ball and SSL win study contracts for methane emission tracking satellite

Ball Aerospace built the first two WorldView satellites and General Dynamics built GeoEye-1.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralDec 3, 2018Maxar schedules spending break after WorldView Legion completion

Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to compete for the mission payloads of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Block 0 missile warning satellites.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 4, 2018Lockheed Martin selects payload providers for next-generation missile warning satellites

The selected Raytheon and Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace teams are tasked to develop detailed designs and compete their solutions for potential use on the next-generation OPIR Block 0 GEO satellites.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 4, 2018Lockheed Martin selects payload providers for next-generation missile warning satellites

Ursa Major tests its engines at a facility an hour north of Denver that once belonged to Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 9, 2018Ursa Major Technologies wants outsourcing engines to be the norm

Ball Aerospace filed a protest of the JPSS contract award to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and the GAO denied the protest in July 2015.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 30, 2018NOAA declares first JPSS weather satellite operational
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