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Thu, 31 Dec 2015
NASA has awarded a sole source letter contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., to build the Operational Land Imager-2 instrument for the Landsat 9 project. The estimated...
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Wed, 30 Dec 2015
BOULDER, Colo., Dec.30, 2015 – Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. kicks off 2016 celebrating 60 years in the aerospace industry at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) annual meeting. The...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2015
Ball Aerospace has been selected by NASA's Science Mission Directorate to build and test a complete radiometric instrument on a Cubesat for a space mission under the In-Space Validation of Earth...
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Fri, 11 Dec 2015
Dec. 11, 2015 - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA's Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes. The dark storm is akin to...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. - NASA has successfully installed the first of 18 flight mirrors built by Ball Aerospace onto the James Webb Space Telescope, beginning a critical piece of the observatory's...
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Wed, 21 Oct 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. program manager Lisa Hardaway, PhD will receive this year's Leadership Award for outstanding dedication to space exploration from the Women in Aerospace (WIA)...
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Mon, 05 Oct 2015
Images from a NASA Mars orbiter’s telescopic camera reveal details of real regions on Mars where a new Hollywood movie, “The Martian,” places future astronaut adventures. The novel of the...
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Mon, 05 Oct 2015
Ball Aerospace, prime contractor for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM), has integrated the propulsion subsystem onto the BCP-100 spacecraft bus and begun system performance and...
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Thu, 20 Aug 2015
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 – Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has completed delivery of a green propellant propulsion subsystem that will be used to test a non-toxic fuel on NASA’s...
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Tue, 04 Aug 2015
The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., has completed its Critical Design Review, confirming the integrity of the...
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Thu, 23 Jul 2015
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone...
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Sat, 18 Jul 2015
CENTENNIAL and BOULDER, Colo.July 18, 2015 - High power sport rockets carried payloads thousands of feet above the plains of Pueblo, Colorado today at the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Ball...
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Tue, 14 Jul 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. salutes NASA, the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for bringing us never-before-seen images of the dwarf...
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Thu, 02 Jul 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered key components to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for a laser ranging system designed to achieve greater accuracy in measuring changes in...
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Wed, 01 Jul 2015
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ralph camera aboard the New Horizons mission will provide the closest images we have ever seen of Pluto when the spacecraft arrives at the dwarf planet on...
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Tue, 30 Jun 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has powered on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) satellite for the first time. The JPSS-1 is the nation's next polar-orbiting, environmental satellite,...
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Fri, 19 Jun 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has promoted Steve Smith to vice president and general manager of its Systems Engineering Solutions (SES) business unit. Smith, currently the director of SES...
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Tue, 16 Jun 2015
Boulder, Colo., June 18, 2015 – Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will showcase advanced and innovative intelligence and geospatial technologies at this year’s GEOINT 2015 Symposium, June...
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Thu, 11 Jun 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will support Principal Investigator Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University (ASU) to develop the Thermal Emission Imaging System for a NASA mission...
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Wed, 10 Jun 2015
The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is headed toward its Critical Design Review this month following an earlier...
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Thu, 07 May 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Vice President and General Manager for Strategic Operations Debra Facktor Lepore has been selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and...
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Mon, 27 Apr 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has integrated four of the five complex instruments that will fly onboard the nation's next polar-orbiting weather satellite and is moving toward environmental...
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Thu, 23 Apr 2015
The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, released to commemorate a quarter century...
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Tue, 21 Apr 2015
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, with seven instruments built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., celebrates 25 years of dramatic observations and discoveries on April 24, 2015. One of the most...
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Fri, 17 Apr 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been chosen as a Supplier of the Year for avionics performance three years in a row by The Boeing Company. Ball was one of 14 companies and one university...
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Fri, 10 Apr 2015
BOULDER, Colo., April 9, 2015 –Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is highlighting 25 years of revolutionary science delivered by the Ball-built instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope at the...
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Thu, 02 Apr 2015
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Core Satellite's Microwave Imager (GMI) built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. under contract for NASA has performed flawlessly in its...
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Wed, 01 Apr 2015
The Ball Aerospace air quality sensor being built for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) under South Korea's National Institute of Environmental Research in the Ministry of Environment...
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Mon, 23 Mar 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been recognized for its role in confirming the age-old hope that planets and planetary systems are ubiquitous in the universe. Established in 1985, the...
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Tue, 03 Feb 2015
A Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. instrument aboard a mission designed to measure the irradiance from Earth's sunlit face is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on...
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Thu, 29 Jan 2015
Two of the five instruments scheduled to fly on the nation's next polar-orbiting weather satellite, NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System -1, have been integrated to the spacecraft bus by prime...
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Thu, 22 Jan 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has hired Michael Gazarik as Director for its Office of Technology on the Boulder campus effective March 2. Dr. Gazarik will lead the alignment of Ball's...
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Mon, 05 Jan 2015
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. employees John Troeltzsch and Christopher Zeller have been selected as associate fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Troeltzsch...
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Sun, 04 Jan 2015
Phoenix, AZ., Jan. 4, 2015 – Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will highlight its nearly 50 years of environmental weather spacecraft and sensor contributions as a sponsor of the annual...
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Fri, 02 Jan 2015
BOULDER, Colo.,Jan. 2, 2015 – Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will highlight its contributions to astronomy as a sponsor of the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Jan....