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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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JPSS-2 will carry the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) built by Raytheon, the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) built by Ball Aerospace, the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) from Northrop Grumman, and the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) built by L3Harris Technologies.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipDec 15, 2021Four NASA Earth Science missions to launch in 2022

NASA’s Imaging X‑Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductDec 9, 2021Ball Aerospace-Built IXPE Spacecraft For NASA Launched Successfully By SpaceX

Under Lockheed Martin’s prime contractor leadership, NGG completed CDRs earlier 2021 for two mission payloads being competitively developed by subcontractor teams Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductNov 23, 2021Lockheed Martin Completes The USSF’s NGG Block 0 Satellite System Level CDR

Ball Aerospace built the OLI-2 imager for Landsat 9.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralNov 7, 2021The First Light Images From Landsat 9 Are Released By NASA

Ball Aerospace developed the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 28, 2021Ball Aerospace Selected By NASA To Study NOAA’s GeoXO Program

Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA for a 20-month contract to conduct the NOAA Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Phase A sounder (GXS) study.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 28, 2021Ball Aerospace Selected By NASA To Study NOAA’s GeoXO Program

Ball Aerospace built and delivered NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, which is scheduled to launch next year to measure and track individual air pollutants across North America.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 28, 2021Ball Aerospace Selected By NASA To Study NOAA’s GeoXO Program

Ball Aerospace designed and is building a methane monitoring instrument for MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund, that will measure and track global methane emissions once launched.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 28, 2021Ball Aerospace Selected By NASA To Study NOAA’s GeoXO Program

Ball Aerospace completed a 146,000-square-foot expansion of the AMC facility in 2019.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 19, 2021Ball Aerospace Expands One Building + Also Opens A New Facility For Payload Development

Ball Aerospace completed and officially opened the Payload Development Facility (PDF) in Broomfield, Colorado.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductOct 19, 2021Ball Aerospace Expands One Building + Also Opens A New Facility For Payload Development

Ball Aerospace completed a 12,500-square-foot highbay in 2021.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 19, 2021Ball Aerospace Expands One Building + Also Opens A New Facility For Payload Development

Raven Moreland is a Spacecraft Power Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace and joined the company in early 2020.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 5, 2021At Satellite Innovation 2021, SSPI Presents Their 2021 Promise Awards To Honorees

The Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) presented the 2021 Promise Awards to Kelsey Doerksen of Planet, Sydney Hamilton of Boeing, and Raven Moreland of Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 5, 2021At Satellite Innovation 2021, SSPI Presents Their 2021 Promise Awards To Honorees

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

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductOct 1, 2021Ball Aerospace and L3Harris win weather instrument study contracts

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

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 1, 2021Ball Aerospace and L3Harris win weather instrument study contracts

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

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductOct 1, 2021Ball Aerospace and L3Harris win weather instrument study contracts

Ball Aerospace & Technologies will conduct a definition Phase A study of geostationary sounders to inform NASA and NOAA’s selection of the hyperspectral infrared instrument for the GeoXO constellation.

Mentioned as: Ball Aerospace & TechnologiesTechnical ProductOct 1, 2021Ball Aerospace and L3Harris win weather instrument study contracts

NASA awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies and L3Harris Technologies to study instruments for Geostationary and Extended Observations (GeoXO).

Mentioned as: Ball Aerospace & TechnologiesTechnical ProductOct 1, 2021Ball Aerospace and L3Harris win weather instrument study contracts

Ball Aerospace designed and built the cryocooler that will keep Landsat 9’s Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) chilled to 40 Kelvin (-388 F).

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 27, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Land Imaging Instrument Aboard The Successful Launch of Landsat 9

Ball Aerospace built the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) instrument that launched aboard Landsat 9.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductSep 27, 2021Ball Aerospace’s Land Imaging Instrument Aboard The Successful Launch of Landsat 9
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