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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 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

Raven Moreland is a Spacecraft Power Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 23, 2021SSPI’s “20 Under 35” Professionals To Be Honored At Satellite Innovation

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

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralAug 30, 2021Ball Aerospace Is Selected By NASA To Engage Instrument Architectures + Designs For The Next Generation Landsat

Ball Aerospace developed and built the cryocooler for Landsat 9’s Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) instrument.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 30, 2021Ball Aerospace Is Selected By NASA To Engage Instrument Architectures + Designs For The Next Generation Landsat

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace completed the Critical Design Review for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) mission payload.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 5, 2021CDR For Next-Gen OPIR GEO Mission Payload Successfully Completed By Northrop Grumman + Ball Aerospace

Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace are one of two teams selected by Lockheed Martin to develop a competitive payload design for the Next-Gen OPIR GEO program.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 5, 2021CDR For Next-Gen OPIR GEO Mission Payload Successfully Completed By Northrop Grumman + Ball Aerospace

Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace plan to deliver their sensor payload to Lockheed Martin in 2023.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 5, 2021Missile defense space sensor made by Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace clears design review

The Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace payload is one of two being manufactured for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared geosynchronous satellites made by Lockheed Martin.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 5, 2021Missile defense space sensor made by Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace clears design review

A new sensor payload developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace to detect missile launches passed a critical design review on 2021-08-05.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipAug 5, 2021Missile defense space sensor made by Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace clears design review

With the flight design complete, Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace will manufacture, integrate, and test the Next-Gen OPIR GEO flight mission payload.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductAug 5, 2021CDR For Next-Gen OPIR GEO Mission Payload Successfully Completed By Northrop Grumman + Ball Aerospace

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center awarded Ball Aerospace the contract to design and build the SWFO-L1 spacecraft on 2020-06-25, on behalf of NOAA.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJul 29, 2021Ball Completes The PDR For NOAA’s SWFO-L1 Spacecraft… On To the Critical Design Phase

Interns from United Launch Alliance launched three high-power sport rockets carrying more than 20 payloads created by K-12 students and interns from Ball Aerospace and Special Aerospace Services on 2021-07-17.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 18, 2021A True STEM Liftoff: The Annual Student Rocket Launch, Sponsored By United Launch Alliance + Ball Aerospace

United Launch Alliance’s three intern-built sport rockets will launch 21 Ball Aerospace intern and K-12 student payloads thousands of feet above the ground in 2021.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJul 7, 2021Student Rocket Launch Event Sponsored By ULA + Ball Aerospace Upcoming…

Volunteer interns from Ball Aerospace and K-12 students design and build payloads that launch on United Launch Alliance intern-built rockets.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 7, 2021Student Rocket Launch Event Sponsored By ULA + Ball Aerospace Upcoming…

Companies that received NOAA contracts in 2020 included Ball Aerospace, L3Harris Technologies, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and York Space Systems.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 7, 2021NOAA to take first step toward a small satellite constellation

Since 2009, United Launch Alliance summer interns have built and launched high-power sport rockets containing payloads designed and built by Ball Aerospace interns participating in the Ball Intern Remote Sensing Team program.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJul 7, 2021Student Rocket Launch Event Sponsored By ULA + Ball Aerospace Upcoming…

Ball Aerospace planned to complete production, integration, and test of the first WSF-M satellite in 2023 for shipment to the launch site.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 24, 2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites

WSF-M is a 1,200-kilogram satellite centered on a microwave imager instrument developed by Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 24, 2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites

SMC planned to order a second WSF-M satellite from Ball Aerospace in 2023 or 2024 with a goal to launch it in 2028.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 24, 2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites

NOAA launched the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (originally NPOESS Preparatory Project) in 2011 and Ball Aerospace built the first JPSS satellite that launched in 2017.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralMay 24, 2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites
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