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2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the BIRST program.
In under ten weeks, the interns design, build and launch payloads—objects, instruments or experiments flown into the stratosphere.
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A dynamic threat environment and rapidly advancing technology are driving the U.S. military to emphasize speed and agility in acquiring and deploying new space capabilities.
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Weather and environmental satellites offer opportunities for collaboration
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Ball’s innovative Methane Monitor uses an active LIDAR system to observe gas leaks from the air.
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Ball Employee Helps Bridge the Arts and Sciences with Music
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The small satellite (smallsat) market continues to grow — in interest, investment, capability and potential impact.
The smallsat market continues to grow — in interest, investment, capability and potential impact.
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Ball Aerospace played key roles in all four of the Great Observatories, and continues to leverage the innovative technologies developed for those missions in next-generation space telescopes.
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Two Ball Aerospace payloads are expected to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in February, 2017.
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We are proud to celebrate 60 years of innovation, collaboration, and pioneering discoveries.
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NASA announces significant discoveries through CALIPSO.
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Launched Oct. 28, 2011, the Ball-built Suomi NPP satellite celebrates five years on-orbit. Initially a prototype, Suomi NPP tracks significant weather events to help protect what matters most.
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What comes to mind when you think about America’s national parks? Rivers, mountains, geysers – the special geological features that make each park unique. But light from our cities is making dark skies and the stars they hold disappear.
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The plains of Kansas are light-years away from Kepler’s otherworldly discoveries. But Kansas native and Ball detector engineering area manager Penny Warren became a bit like the Wizard of Oz this summer when she gave a Kepler talk to an engaged audience of adults and K-12 students at the Galaxy Forum in the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.
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15th anniversary
This time of year conjures an outpouring of emotion for us all, regardless of where we were Sept. 11, 2001.
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Now that Kepler has found more than 2,000 planets orbiting other stars and the K2 mission keeps adding to the tally, scientists are eager for a closer look. They’re exploring a number of ways to find Earth’s twin and maybe discover where E.T. lives.
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Ball Aerospace is leading a team of industry, NASA and Air Force players to test the performance of a new spacecraft fuel on-orbit. Safer and more efficient than hydrazine, the new fuel has the potential to open up a universe of mission possibilities.
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When lives hang in the balance, communication is critical for an aircraft that flies combat, special operations, search /survivor and disaster relief missions.
That’s why the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)/Airbus came to the AIRLINK® SATCOM antenna team at Ball Aerospace to upgrade a fleet of C-130J aircraft.
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Designed to measure ozone, a Ball instrument is also contributing to long-term climate and air quality measurements. On board NASA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) spacecraft, the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) is an instrument designed to measure ozone and how ozone concentration varies with altitude. But it’s doing much more.
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Women Engineers and Technicians Share Their Stories of Working in a STEM Industry
Meet some of Ball’s female engineers and technicians. Find out what led them to pursue a technical career and what it is like to be a woman working in a STEM industry.
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Ball and its employees encourage local girls to explore STEM careers by supporting several outreach programs.
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Snails, Ticks & Mosquitoes: How our nation’s satellites contribute beyond the weather forecast.
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At Ball we don’t build rockets. Instead, we build the spacecraft and the instruments that are launched from the rocket. And that’s where the fun begins for the large group of interns who join us each summer.
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I knew in a heartbeat that these were all the ingredients for serious fun. I remember thinking, ‘Are you kidding me? Are we getting paid to do this?!’
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Pioneering discoveries that move Earth science forward
Every day, Ball Aerospace technologies are delivering the critical Earth science data policy makers, stakeholders and scientists need to better understand our world. Learn more about the new technologies Ball is developing to advance Earth science.
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The Story Behind Fixing Hubble's Vision, Part 2
Bottema, coming out of retirement to tackle the Hubble problem, had another idea. He suggested using relay mirrors similar to those planned for JPL’s next-generation main camera.
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The Story Behind Fixing Hubble's Vision
Starting in the late 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope became a Ball focus.The company’s 20-year relationship with NASA Goddard, which managed the Hubble program, paved the way. Ball engineers came to understand the space telescope as few did.
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How the Hubble Space Telescope came to be
Once upon a time, the idea of four Great Observatories was just an idea in the minds of many people at NASA, as well as a few universities.
And time passed. And things were discussed. And language was written. And money appeared. And people got busy. And then the first of the four Great Observatories was launched.
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Saving Kepler & CloudSat
Hundreds of miles from Earth in a cold, dark vacuum, a spacecraft transmitting critical science data is crippled. Engineers rack their brains for an answer. The usual solutions won’t work, so a few engineers do the next best thing.
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Gifts from Mysterious Pluto
Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., waited a long time for the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto on July 14. He has worked on this project in one form or another for 26 years. Learn about the discoveries and history of this groundbreaking program.
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A driving force in human-machine teaming
Ball's Scott Grigsby led the SAM (Semi-Autonomous Motorcar) project to nationally renowned success and, most importantly, was part of the team that gave Sam Schmidt, an injured IndyCar driver with no ability to move his arms or legs, the ability to once again drive at high speeds on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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WorldView-3
What do you know about remote sensing? Maybe you’ve heard people say while looking at their smart phone, “That’s a Google image.” O.K., that’s partly right. The Google search engine has provided the user image. Google, however, doesn’t have satellites in space to capture images.