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Ball Aerospace Successfully Commissions Small Satellite, Begins On-Orbit Testing of Green Fuel
Ball Aerospace is the primary contractor for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission Boulder, Colo., July 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace has officially commissioned NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and begun on-orbit testing of a non-toxic, high-performance propellant. GPIM launched on June 25, 2019 at 2:30 a.m. EDT on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. We are...
Read More »Open Source Data Analysis Software suits remote sensing applications.
Used by scientists and analysts within DoD community to analyze remote sensing data and produce actionable intelligence, Opticks open-source software offerings include extensions that perform hyperspectral, multispectral, and image spectroscopy analysis. Included tools can convert imagery from radiance to reflectance as well as load and display signatures. Extension also includes signature...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Delivers Orbital Express NextSat Spacecraft
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 24 // -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced today the successful delivery of the NextSat Commodities Spacecraft (NextSat/CSC) to The Boeing Company's Orbital Express (OE) program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Scheduled to launch late this year, OE is designed to demonstrate technological readiness of autonomous satellite servicing....
Read More »Ball Aerospace Receives Award from American Meteorological Society
The award for outstanding services by a corporation highlights Ball's commitment to providing weather instruments and spacecraft for a weather ready nation BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace has been honored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) with the 2020 Award for Outstanding Services by a Corporation for designing and building proven advanced...
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Ball Aerospace Successfully Commissions Small Satellite, Begins On-Orbit Testing of Green Fuel
Ball Aerospace is the primary contractor for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission Boulder, Colo., July 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace has officially commissioned NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and begun on-orbit testing of a non-toxic, high-performance propellant. GPIM launched on June 25, 2019 at 2:30 a.m. EDT on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. We are...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Delivers Pollution Monitoring Instrument to NASA
The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer will measure air quality BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace has delivered the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer to NASA after a successful final acceptance review. Once launched, TEMPO will be a space-based ultraviolet/visible light air quality spectrometer in...
Read More »Ball Aerospace to Build Prototype Data Processing Framework for U.S. Air Force's FORGE Program
Prototype will visualize the time-critical processing performance in satellite ground systems, ensuring timely and reliable missile warnings, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence. BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace was selected to build an adaptable, open-source framework testbed to support ground processing needs for the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Team Receives NASA Group Achievement Recognition
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace recently received a Group Achievement Award from NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, recognizing the company for the innovative solution that enabled the continued use of the Kepler spacecraft for the K2 science mission. After Kepler completed its primary mission, the second of four reaction wheels on Kepler...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Wins Aviation Week Program Excellence Award
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 27, 2017 - Ball Aerospace has been awarded an Aviation Week Program Excellence Award for their work on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope cryogenic electronics system. The awards honor global aerospace and defense programs and projects, their leaders and their teams for going beyond meeting requirements to exemplify the best in value creation, leadership, adapting to...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Acquires Wavefront Technologies
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md. –Ã- Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp. announced today that it has acquired specialized engineering cyber firm Wavefront Technologies to further strengthen and diversify its business portfolio. The transaction price was not disclosed. Wavefront Technologies, located in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, provides systems and network engineering, software development...
Read More »Open Source Data Analysis Software suits remote sensing applications.
Used by scientists and analysts within DoD community to analyze remote sensing data and produce actionable intelligence, Opticks open-source software offerings include extensions that perform hyperspectral, multispectral, and image spectroscopy analysis. Included tools can convert imagery from radiance to reflectance as well as load and display signatures. Extension also includes signature...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Chosen to Compete for Ares I Instrument Avionics Contract
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 8 -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as one of the final competitors for the Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA) contract for the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle. Ball Aerospace was chosen as a finalist from five industry teams that submitted proposals for the IUA contract, and will now enter discussions with NASA regarding...
Read More »Ball Aerospace Achieves CMMI-DEV 1.2v Maturity Level 3
BOULDER, Colo., July 9 / -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. today announced that it has earned the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV) Maturity Level 3 status for its software development capabilities. The rating demonstrates Ball's commitment to continuous improvement and affirms a consistent and unified approach in all...
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