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The GLIDE spacecraft will launch with NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 spacecraft that was built by Ball Aerospace and is powered by Rocket Lab components.
Ball Aerospace won a contract in 2020 to build, integrate, and operate the SWFO L1 spacecraft for NOAA.
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.
Ball Aerospace planned to complete production, integration, and test of the first WSF-M satellite in 2023 for shipment to the launch site.
Ball Aerospace is working with Computational Physics Inc. to compare cost and performance of strategies for a dedicated auroral imager operating in a highly elliptical Tundra orbit under the Auroral Imager in Tundra study.
Ball Aerospace won a contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On satellite destined for Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1.
Ball Aerospace won a $96,900,000 contract on 2020-06-25 to build, integrate, and operate the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) satellite destined for Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1.
MethaneSAT will use X-SAT, Blue Canyon Technologies’ largest offered spacecraft bus, to carry a methane-detection payload from Ball Aerospace.
Ball Aerospace received a $2,300,000 contract, partially funded by the U.S. Army, to test a phased array on a ground vehicle so a single terminal could communicate with LEO, MEO, and GEO satellites.
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.
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.