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Thu, 20 Feb 2020
Ball Aerospace successfully completed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the advanced spectrometer instrument for the MethaneSAT Flight System, a 350-kilogram satellite that will locate and...
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Tue, 18 Feb 2020
The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument, jointly developed by Ball Aerospace and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) under the leadership of Ball Aerospace,...
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Wed, 12 Feb 2020
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has recognized Dr. Mike Gazarik, Ball Aerospace's vice president of Engineering, among its 2020 class of Fellows. AIAA confers the...
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Tue, 28 Jan 2020
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 28, 2020 — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has honored three Ball Aerospace employees among its 2020 class of Associate Fellows. Dr. David...
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Tue, 03 Dec 2019
Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space, Ball Aerospace, has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)....
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Tue, 29 Oct 2019
Ball Aerospace announced today that Dr. Dave Kaufman has been named chief operating officer, effective January 1, 2020. Kaufman joined Ball Aerospace in 2000 as Senior Program and Capture Manager,...
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Tue, 01 Oct 2019
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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Fri, 27 Sep 2019
Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument...
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Wed, 25 Sep 2019
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 25, 2019 – Earlier today, Ball Aerospace announced that Dr. Rob Freedman, vice president and general manager of the company’s Tactical Solutions (TS) business, plans to...
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Tue, 17 Sep 2019
Ball Aerospace and Microsoft were selected to demonstrate agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's Commercially Augmented Space...
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Thu, 12 Sep 2019
Ball Aerospace has shipped and delivered the large camera lens assembly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, which will be incorporated into the Large Synoptic...
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Wed, 10 Jul 2019
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,...
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Fri, 05 Jul 2019
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...
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Fri, 21 Jun 2019
A Ball Aerospace satellite used for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is ready for launch, scheduled for no earlier than June 24 on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Ball built the...
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Mon, 20 May 2019
The Ball Aerospace-built small spacecraft for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) arrived in Florida today to prepare for a June launch on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. GPIM is...
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Fri, 03 May 2019
BOULDER, Colo., May 3, 2019 — Ball Aerospace is showcasing how its decades of experience providing mission solutions for U.S. government and civil customers is being applied to benefit...
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Fri, 05 Apr 2019
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 5, 2019 — From technology demonstrations to Class A national capabilities, Ball Aerospace serves as a trusted mission partner to its customers, delivering...
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Thu, 28 Mar 2019
BOULDER, Colo., March 28, 2019 — Ball Aerospace has recognized 22 employees for outstanding contributions to the business and its customers – and for their commitment, dedication,...
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Tue, 26 Mar 2019
BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 26, 2019 — Ball Corporation was honored with the inaugural Founding Sponsor Award by Colorado For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST®) in...
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Thu, 07 Mar 2019
Ball Aerospace has been selected to continue work on the Space Evaluation and Analysis Capability (SEAC) testbed for the second phase of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Defense...
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Thu, 14 Feb 2019
Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to build the spacecraft for the Spectro Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), a Medium-class Explorer...
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Fri, 25 Jan 2019
Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the first communication demonstration between Telesat's LEO Phase 1 satellite and Ball's fully electronically-steered flat panel antenna at Telesat's...
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Tue, 08 Jan 2019
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 8, 2019 — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has recognized Ball Aerospace’s Heidi Hallowell, principal systems engineer, among its 2019 class...
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Fri, 07 Dec 2018
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...
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Tue, 04 Dec 2018
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 Systems Center (SMC). This prototype...
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018
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...
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Tue, 18 Sep 2018
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 18, 2018 — Maureen Masiulis, a program manager in Tactical Solutions at Ball Aerospace, has been recognized with the 2018 Society of Women Engineers’ (SWE) Emerging...
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Mon, 10 Sep 2018
Ball Aerospace has signed an exclusive license agreement to be the sole manufacturer of the Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (GmAPD) light detection and ranging (LIDAR) cameras for the defense and...
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Wed, 08 Aug 2018
A preliminary design review of NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space-based astrophysics observatory was completed in late June at Ball Aerospace's Boulder, Colo. facility led by...
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Mon, 06 Aug 2018
Ball Aerospace today announced that it will provide airborne methane monitor sensors and data analytics tools, such as data visualization and processing capabilities, to Denver-based Carina RST,...
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Mon, 16 Jul 2018
Earlier today, Ball Aerospace announced that Jim Oschmann, vice president and general manager of the company's Civil Space strategic business unit, plans to retire from the company, effective...
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Mon, 09 Jul 2018
United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Ball Aerospace will celebrate the 10th anniversary of hands-on STEM education with a rocket launch over southeastern Colorado. Open to the general public, 2018...
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Mon, 18 Jun 2018
Ball Aerospace demonstrated its methane remote sensing technology flying on board a piloted aircraft during the Stanford University and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Mobile Monitoring...
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Wed, 30 May 2018
Ball Aerospace has been chosen to develop and build the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) Optical Mechanical Assembly (WOMA) for NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST is a NASA...
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Thu, 26 Apr 2018
Ball Aerospace successfully completed the second of five evaluations of the Space Evaluation and Analysis Capability (SEAC) testbed it is developing for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)...
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Mon, 16 Apr 2018
Ball Aerospace is collaborating with Honeywell to develop and produce high-performance, high-reliability Optical Communication DataLinks that enable satellite operators to deliver affordable,...
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Thu, 12 Apr 2018
Ball Aerospace completed the handover of NOAA's advanced next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite, the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), to NASA following a successful satellite...
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Wed, 11 Apr 2018
From technology demonstrations to Class A national capabilities, Ball serves as a trusted mission partner to its customers, delivering affordable, innovative and resilient mission-level solutions...
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Mon, 26 Mar 2018
BOULDER, Colo., March 26, 2018 — Ball Aerospace has recognized 26 employees for outstanding contributions to the business and its customers in the areas of administration and leadership,...
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Fri, 09 Mar 2018
Ball Aerospace is demonstrating how its decades of work for the U.S. government in civil, defense and intelligence applications is being applied to benefit commercial markets at this year's...
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Tue, 27 Feb 2018
Ball Aerospace will deliver multi-beam phased array antenna systems as part of a contract win by BAE Systems for the U.S. Navy Network Tactical Common Data Link (NTCDL) System. The NTCDL system...
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Tue, 20 Feb 2018
Ball Aerospace has launched VizZen™, a new commercial, off-the-shelf cloud-based content management and visual-data repository that is available for purchase on Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
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Wed, 14 Feb 2018
Ball Aerospace delivered the TIRS-2 Flight Cryocooler for the Landsat 9 TIRS-2 instrument ahead of schedule to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Achieving this milestone early will allow...
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Thu, 01 Feb 2018
Dr. Thomas Kampe, a staff consultant at Ball Aerospace, has been recognized as a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. This year, SPIE will promote 71 new Fellows of...
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Mon, 08 Jan 2018
Since its founding in Boulder, Colorado, in 1956, Ball Aerospace has significantly increased its high-tech workforce, embarked on several infrastructure expansion projects and pioneered new...
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Wed, 13 Dec 2017
Dr. Laura Coyle, an optical engineer at Ball Aerospace, has been selected to serve as one of The Optical Society's (OSA) 2018 Ambassadors. As an ambassador, Coyle will join an international team...
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Wed, 29 Nov 2017
Ball Aerospace has been selected by the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to deliver the next-generation operational environmental satellite system, Weather System Follow-on...
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Mon, 20 Nov 2017
NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) successfully launched this morning at 1:47 a.m., PST, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket....
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Thu, 09 Nov 2017
NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) is encapsulated inside the fairing (nose cone) of a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle ready for lift off from Space Launch Complex-2W at...
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Fri, 27 Oct 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...