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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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The Space Development Agency awarded Ball Aerospace a $176,000,000 contract on 2022-10-04 to build, operate, and secure launch services for 10 experimental satellites.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 4, 2022Ball Aerospace wins $176 million contract to build and operate 10 satellites for Space Development Agency

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

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 4, 2022Ball Aerospace wins $176 million contract to build and operate 10 satellites for Space Development Agency

The Space Development Agency awarded a firm-fixed-price Other Transaction prototype agreement to Ball Aerospace of Broomfield, Colorado with a total potential value of approximately $176,000,000.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 4, 2022SDA awards prototype agreement to Ball Aerospace to establish NExT

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

STAR-X will include a spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace, an X-ray telescope (XRT) provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a UV telescope (UVT) provided by the University of Colorado.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNoiseSep 13, 2022Ball Aerospace selected for NASA’s Astrophysics study

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

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 26, 2022Lunar Trailblazer faces NASA review after cost overruns

Ball Aerospace plans further testing in 2023 of a Seagate storage device providing memory for a Ball payload on a small satellite in low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative PlanAug 16, 2022Ball and Seagate test data storage devices for satellites

Ball Aerospace designed and is currently building the methane monitoring instrument for MethaneSAT LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

Ball Aerospace’s hyperspectral IR sounder BOWIE-GXS is designed to provide temperature and moisture profiles through the atmosphere with high spectral and temporal resolution in the mid-wave through long-wave infrared wavebands in a compact form.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on instruments to support NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

Overall, three 20-month studies have been awarded to Ball Aerospace for NOAA’s GeoXO program.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

The three 20-month GeoXO studies awarded to Ball Aerospace will be based on Ball Operational Weather Instrument Evolution (BOWIE).

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

Ball Aerospace was selected in October 2021 for NOAA’s GeoXO Phase A Sounder (GXS) study.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) developed by Ball Aerospace launched in February 2020 for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to measure air pollution across the greater Asia-Pacific region.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

Ball Aerospace designed and built NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, which will measure and track individual air pollutants across North America once launched.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralAug 1, 2022Ball Aerospace selected by NOAA for 2 weather instrument studies

Ball Aerospace, Seagate Technology Holdings plc, and Seagate Federal, Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on data processing and storage technology in space.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 27, 2022Collaboration now underway between Ball Aerospace + Seagate for data storage in space solutions

Ball Aerospace has experience in designing and building space systems.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 27, 2022Collaboration now underway between Ball Aerospace + Seagate for data storage in space solutions

Ball Aerospace designed and built the advanced optical technology and lightweight mirror system for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductJul 12, 2022Ball Aerospace celebrates JWST’s first images + the success of the company’s mirror segments + more…

Ball Aerospace is providing the spacecraft bus and telescope for NASA/JPL’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx).

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductJul 12, 2022Ball Aerospace celebrates JWST’s first images + the success of the company’s mirror segments + more…

Ball Aerospace worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman to develop the 25-square-meter system consisting of 18 beryllium mirror segments that operate together as one unit.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 12, 2022Ball Aerospace celebrates JWST’s first images + the success of the company’s mirror segments + more…
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