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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 legacy Applied Aerospace operation has supplied hardware to customers such as Northrop Grumman, RTX (Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems (Ball Aerospace).

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipDec 9, 2025Applied Aerospace and PCX create US flight and space hardware group

BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., won a $450 contract to develop an ocean-color instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next geostationary weather constellation.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 20, 2024BAE Systems wins $450 million contract to build weather satellite instrument

BAE Systems, the former Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., won a $365,000,000 contract on 2024-05-01 to develop an air quality sensor for U.S. geostationary weather satellites.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceTechnical ProductMay 1, 2024BAE Systems wins $365 million contract to build geostationary weather instrument

Mercury Systems co-developed a space-qualified processing board for field-programmable gate arrays with Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralMar 11, 2024Space loves AI, AI doesn’t love Space

Intelsat tested antenna technology from Ball Aerospace (which became part of BAE Systems in February 2024) and integration designs and hardware from Stellar Blu Solutions as part of its multi-orbit efforts.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipMar 11, 2024Dawn of the multi-orbit era

The last payload deployed on Transporter-10 was MethaneSAT, developed by Ball Aerospace for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralMar 5, 2024SpaceX launches tenth Transporter rideshare mission

Thales Alenia Space won a contract from Ball Aerospace to provide key communications components for NASA’s NEO Surveyor spacecraft destined for the Earth–Sun Lagrange point 1.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 16, 2024Thales Alenia Space to supply NEO Surveyor communications equipment

BAE Systems will provide 2024 Group guidance at its preliminary results on 21 February 2024 incorporating the Ball Aerospace acquisition.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

BAE Systems will execute steps in the coming days to complete the acquisition of Ball Aerospace from Ball Corporation.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

The final transaction to acquire Ball Aerospace is expected to close at a purchase price of $5.5 billion, approximately £4,400,000,000.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

BAE Systems will fund the $5,500,000,000 purchase price for Ball Aerospace through existing cash and new external debt.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

BAE Systems will complete its $5,500,000,000 acquisition of Ball Aerospace after securing regulatory approvals for the deal.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems wins approval for Ball Aerospace acquisition

On 2024-02-14, BAE Systems and Ball Aerospace obtained the regulatory approvals required to complete the acquisition announced in August.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems wins approval for Ball Aerospace acquisition

BAE Systems has received the necessary regulatory approvals to complete the acquisition of Ball Aerospace from Ball Corporation.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 14, 2024BAE Systems receives regulatory approvals for $5.5 Billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace

Ball Aerospace worked with scientists from EDF and MethaneSAT to design and build the primary scientific instrument for the mission and led spacecraft integration and environmental testing.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 8, 2024Ball Aerospace Delivers MethaneSAT to Vandenberg Space Force Base for Upcoming Launch

Ball Aerospace delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California 2024-02-05.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 8, 2024Ball Aerospace Delivers MethaneSAT to Vandenberg Space Force Base for Upcoming Launch

Space Systems Command delivered the USSF-62 Weather System Follow-on – Microwave Space Vehicle from Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 8, 2024SSC successfully delivers 1st USSF WSF-M satellite to Vandenberg SFB for a March launch

Ball Aerospace designed, built, and integrated the WSF-M spacecraft bus and its ground data processing software.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 8, 2024SSC successfully delivers 1st USSF WSF-M satellite to Vandenberg SFB for a March launch

Ball Aerospace partnered with MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund, on the MethaneSAT mission.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 22, 2024Webinar Replay | Not Invisible Anymore: How satellites monitor atmospheric methane

Makenzie Lystrup was not involved in the GXS procurement and had divested any financial interests in Ball Aerospace by the time NASA selected Ball for the GXS award.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract
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