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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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Ball Aerospace completed construction of the WSF-M spacecraft bus and the satellite’s Microwave Imager (MWI) instrument on 2023-01-10.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 12, 2023U.S. Space Force considers a second NOAA weather satellite

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will send the Space Weather Follow-On built by Ball Aerospace to Lagrange Point 1 in 2024.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceNarrative PlanJan 11, 2023Progress and obstacles for space weather forecasting

Ball Aerospace and L3Harris won NASA contracts in 2021 worth approximately $8,000,000 apiece to help define the GeoXO satellite sounders.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 10, 2023Full steam ahead for NOAA’s $20 billion GeoXO program

Ball Aerospace was awarded a contract modification to develop and build the second WSF-M space vehicle expected to be completed by late 2027.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 10, 2023Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building USSF’s WSF-M satellite

Ball Aerospace completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on–Microwave (WSF-M) satellite.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductJan 10, 2023Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building USSF’s WSF-M satellite

Ball Aerospace’s Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instruments are operating on the Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites launched in 2011 and 2017, respectively.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building USSF’s WSF-M satellite

Ball Aerospace is on contract with NASA to build two additional OMPS instruments for JPSS-3 and JPSS-4.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building USSF’s WSF-M satellite

NASA awarded Ball Aerospace and Raytheon contracts in May, each valued at about $5 million, to perform definition-phase studies of the GeoXO atmospheric composition instrument.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductJan 10, 2023Full steam ahead for NOAA’s $20 billion GeoXO program

Ball Aerospace expected the functional testing and WFI integration to be completed by mid-2023.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralDec 5, 2022Ball Aerospace integrates the opto-mechanical assembly for the Roman Space Telescope

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.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralNov 29, 2022Ball Aerospace names a VP + GM for their Civil Space Strategic Business

Ball Aerospace built the JPSS-1 satellite, now known as NOAA-20, which launched in 2017.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 22, 2022Ball Aerospace’s Ozone Mapping Instrument Launches Aboard NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite

Ball Aerospace built the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite that launched in 2011.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 22, 2022Ball Aerospace’s Ozone Mapping Instrument Launches Aboard NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite

Ball Aerospace is on contract with NASA to build the OMPS instruments for JPSS-3 and JPSS-4.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralNov 22, 2022Ball Aerospace’s Ozone Mapping Instrument Launches Aboard NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite

Azure Orbital created an intelligent hosting platform software that runs on spacecraft operated by Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space, and Xplore.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 17, 2022Azure Orbital Space unveils software tools for space applications

In 2021 the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency selected BAE Systems, Ball Aerospace, BlackSky, Continental Mapping Consultants, and Royce Geospatial Consultants as vendors for the Economic Indicator Monitoring program.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductNov 15, 2022NGA to increase spending on commercial Earth monitoring services

On 2022-11-09 the Space Force awarded Ball Aerospace a $78,200,000 contract modification exercising an option to acquire a second WSF-M satellite that would launch in 2028.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 11, 2022Space Force orders new weather satellite from Ball Aerospace

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

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 11, 2022Space Force orders new weather satellite from Ball Aerospace

JPSS-1 was built by Ball Aerospace, launched in 2017, and operates in service as NOAA-20.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 10, 2022Atlas 5 launches weather satellite, reentry tech demo mission

Hope Damphousse will lead Ball Aerospace’s Washington, D.C. office.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 19, 2022Ball Aerospace names a new Vice President

Ball Aerospace will operate the NExT satellites from facilities in Colorado.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 4, 2022SDA awards prototype agreement to Ball Aerospace to establish NExT
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