Ball Aerospace Earth Survey Satellite Wraps Up 17-Year Mission; Cary Ludtke Comments
A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built satellite has concluded its Earth monitoring mission after 17 years in space after initially being intended for a five-year mission. Radarsat-1 launched in 1995 for the Canadian government to collect images of Earth’s geologic features by circling the planet every 101 minutes, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. The Radarsat-1 was [...]
A sensor built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. that launched in February has taken its first images for a mission to capture photos of coastal regions, polar ice, islands and continental areas. Ball Aerospace’s Operational Land Imager and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Thermal infrared sensor took photos of the Rocky Mountains and [...]
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ATK Hardware Helps Lift Rocket, Mapping Satellite; David Shanahan Comments
February 13, 2013 No Comment
ATK provided hardware to both a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture for a Monday rocket launch and for a satellite the rocket carried into space. The United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket carried an ATK composite heat shield and propellant tank and the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite carries ATK hardware as well, ATK said Tuesday. [...]
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Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has delivered two of the 18 primary mirrors needed for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The agency said it is inspecting the mirrors and storing them at the Goddard cleanroom until engineers are ready to assemble them onto the telescope’s backplane structure [...]
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Contractor-Supported Telescope Finds Hidden Galaxies, Black Holes; Hashima Hasan Comments
August 30, 2012 No CommentA NASA telescope has discovered new candidates for black holes and close to 1,000 dust-obscured objects the agency believes could be galaxies, the agency announced Wednesday. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, both DRS Technologies and Rockwell made the focal planes and Lockheed Martin made a cooling system for the [...]
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