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Ball Aerospace to Help SKorea Develop, Test Air Quality Sensor; Cary Ludtke Comments

Ball Aerospace to Help SKorea Develop, Test Air Quality Sensor; Cary Ludtke Comments

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has won a contract to help South Korea’s aeronautics and space agency design, manufacture and test an instrument to measure transboundary pollutants over the Korean Peninsula and Asia-Pacific region. Under the contract, Ball Aerospace and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute will co-develop the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer intended to provide [...]

May 15, 2013No CommentRead More

Exelis Wins $3.2M to Support Air Force Satellite Sensor System; Mark Fournier Comments

January 31, 2013 No Comment
Exelis Wins $3.2M to Support Air Force Satellite Sensor System; Mark Fournier Comments

ITT Exelis has won a $3.2 million follow-on contract from the Air Force research laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., to provide upgraded satellite remote sensor systems, according to a company statement. “The new sensor system gives our customers advance knowledge about changes in space weather,” said Mark Fournier, ITT Exelis director of Antenna and Space Programs. “This [...]

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Ball Aerospace Integrates Four Payloads into DoD Spacecraft; David Taylor Comments

December 26, 2012 No Comment

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp has integrated four new payloads and a spacecraft de-orbit module into the STPSat-3, according to a company statement.    “With a build time of 47 days for STPSat-3 and 18 days for integration, our spacecraft bus continues to demonstrate its rapid production and deployment capability,” said David Taylor, Ball Aerospace president and [...]

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Ball Aerospace Satellite Surveys Close-Range Asteroids For NASA

May 18, 2012 No Comment

A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built spacecraft is being employed by NASA in order to locate potentially hazardous asteroids near the Earth. Ball announced Thursday that in using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, NASA has found there to be nearly 4,700 of the asteroids, the closest of which comes within five million miles of Earth. [...]

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Ball Aerospace to Continue Operating Air Force Satellite; David Taylor Comments

April 16, 2012 No Comment

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will continue to operate a series of satellites that provide interfacing to the Air Force for an additional year. The company announced Friday it will continue to provide space vehicle support to the STPSat-2 spacecraft through Feb. 1, 2013. Ball Aerospace CEO and President David Taylor said the satellite demonstrates collaboration [...]

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Ball Aerospace Installs Mirrors on Northrop’s Webb Telescope, Pre-Launch Testing Soon

February 27, 2012 1 Comment

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. completed installing a set of auxiliary mirrors for the Northrop Grumman-built James Webb Space Telescope and Northrop will start the next phase of tests in May. Northrop said it will test the telescope’s ability to withstand the rocket launch and the cold temperatures of space. Northrop is the prime contractor [...]

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