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Ball Aerospace Ships Methane Monitoring Satellite for Launch
Ball Aerospace successfully delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California this week, where it is scheduled to launch next month. The mission was developed in partnership with MethaneSAT, LLC, part of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and it will provide groundbreaking data on the scale and sources of global methane emissions. The Ball Aerospace team readies the MethaneSAT satellite…
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NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Develop NOAA’s GeoXO Sounder Instrument
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, to develop the sounder instrument for a Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $486.9 million. It includes the build, delivery, spacecraft integration, and post-delivery support for one flight instrument, as well as options for…
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Ball Aerospace Ships Ozone Mapping Instrument for Weather Satellite
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ball Aerospace has shipped the Ozone Mapping Profile Suite (OMPS) instrument for integration onto NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) weather satellite. Ozone mapping instrument built by Ball Aerospace is shipped for integration onto weather satellite. “Ball has been a part of ozone measurements from space for more than 40 years, and we are excited now…
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Ball Aerospace Completes Critical Design Review of NASA’s IXPE Mission
BOULDER, Colo., July 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The mission critical design review (M-CDR) of NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space-based astrophysics observatory was recently completed at Ball Aerospace’s Boulder, Colorado, facility. The IXPE mission is led by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with support from Ball Aerospace, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at University of Colorado Boulder and other…
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Ball Aerospace Successfully Commissions Small Satellite, Begins On-Orbit Testing of Green Fuel
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. Ball Aerospace commissions small satellite for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, begins on-orbit testing of propellant. “We are excited for the opportunity…
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