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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 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.

NARRATIVE PLAN6/9/2022Rocket Lab selected by Ball Aerospace for solar empowerment of NASA’s GLIDE spacecraft

Ball Aerospace won a contract in 2020 to build, integrate, and operate the SWFO L1 spacecraft for NOAA.

ORG RELATIONSHIP1/24/2022NOAA seeks continuity of space weather observations

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.

NARRATIVE PLAN10/28/2021Ball Aerospace Selected By NASA To Study NOAA’s GeoXO Program

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

NARRATIVE PLAN5/24/2021A race against time to replace aging military weather satellites

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/30/2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/30/2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/25/2020Ball Aerospace wins NOAA space weather contract

MethaneSAT will use X-SAT, Blue Canyon Technologies’ largest offered spacecraft bus, to carry a methane-detection payload from Ball Aerospace.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/6/2020Blue Canyon Technologies to build its largest satellite to date for MethaneSAT

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.

ORG RELATIONSHIP11/5/2019Air Force enthusiastic about commercial LEO broadband after successful tests

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.

NARRATIVE PLAN7/22/2019Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial 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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH5/13/2019Dozens of satellites could feed NOAA’s future weather models
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