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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (commonly Ball Aerospace) is a manufacturer of spacecraft, components, and instruments for national defense, civil space and commercial space applications. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ball Corp.
Ball Corp.

Ball Corporation , originally Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, is an United States company famous for producing glass Mason jars....
 (NYSE
New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in New York City, New York. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar market capitalization of its listed companies' Security ....
: BLL), with primary offices and facilities in Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, Colorado, in the United States....
, Broomfield
Broomfield, Colorado

The City and County of Broomfield is a prominent suburb and tier of the Denver metropolitan area in the State of Colorado of the United States. Broomfield has a consolidated city-county which operates under Article XX, Sections 10-13 of the Colorado#Law_and_government....
 and Westminster
Westminster, Colorado

Westminster is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality in Adams County, Colorado and Jefferson County, Colorado counties in the U.S. state of Colorado....
 in Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
, with smaller offices in New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and Northern Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
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Ball Aerospace began building pointing controls for military rockets in 1956, and later won a contract to build one of NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
’s first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory
Orbiting Solar Observatory

The Orbiting Solar Observatory was the name of a series of nine NASA satellites built by Ball Aerospace to study the sun, of which eight were launched successfully between 1962 and 1975 using Delta rockets....
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (commonly Ball Aerospace) is a manufacturer of spacecraft, components, and instruments for national defense, civil space and commercial space applications. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ball Corp.
Ball Corp.

Ball Corporation , originally Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, is an United States company famous for producing glass Mason jars....
 (NYSE
New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in New York City, New York. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar market capitalization of its listed companies' Security ....
: BLL), with primary offices and facilities in Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, Colorado, in the United States....
, Broomfield
Broomfield, Colorado

The City and County of Broomfield is a prominent suburb and tier of the Denver metropolitan area in the State of Colorado of the United States. Broomfield has a consolidated city-county which operates under Article XX, Sections 10-13 of the Colorado#Law_and_government....
 and Westminster
Westminster, Colorado

Westminster is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality in Adams County, Colorado and Jefferson County, Colorado counties in the U.S. state of Colorado....
 in Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
, with smaller offices in New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and Northern Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
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Ball Aerospace began building pointing controls for military rockets in 1956, and later won a contract to build one of NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
’s first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory
Orbiting Solar Observatory

The Orbiting Solar Observatory was the name of a series of nine NASA satellites built by Ball Aerospace to study the sun, of which eight were launched successfully between 1962 and 1975 using Delta rockets....
. Over the years, the company has been responsible for numerous technological and scientific projects and continues to provide aerospace technology to NASA and related industries.

Ball Aerospace also has many other products and services for the aerospace industry, including lubricants, optical systems, star trackers and antennas. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ball Corp., Ball Aerospace was cited in 2005 as the 99th largest defense contractor in the world. Both parent and subsidiary headquarters are co-located in Broomfield, Colorado.

Participating projects


Current

  • The Orbital Express
    Orbital Express

    Orbital Express was a space mission managed by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a team led by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ....
     autonomous satellite servicing mission
  • The Kepler Space Observatory satellite to search for habitable planets
  • The James Webb Space Telescope
    James Webb Space Telescope

    The James Webb Space Telescope is a planned space infrared observatory, the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The main scientific goal is to observe the most distant objects in the universe, those beyond the reach of either ground based instruments or the Hubble....
     (JWST) to study the formation of the earliest stars in the universe.
  • The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
    Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

    The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer is a NASA-funded scientific research project scheduled for launch in November 2009. The satellite will carry a 40 cm infrared-sensitive telescope and provide an "all-sky" survey in the 3 to 25 ?m wavelength range ....
     (WISE) Program, which, over a seven-month mission in a polar orbit will map the entire sky in multiple mid-far infrared wavelengths. This crucial mission may find close and cool objects to our sun never before detected. It will also act as a predecessor to the JWST Program.
  • The WorldView-2 earth observation satellite
    Earth observation satellite

    Earth observation satellites are satellites specifically designed to observe Earth from orbit, similar toreconnaissance satellites but intended for non-military uses such as natural environmental monitoring, meteorology, map making etc....
    .
  • The Opticks
    Opticks (software)

    Opticks is an Open source software, remote sensing application that supports , video , Synthetic aperture radar, Multi-spectral image, hyperspectral, and other types of remote sensing data....
     remote sensing application.


Historical

  • DigitalGlobe
    DigitalGlobe

    DigitalGlobe, of Longmont, Colorado, USA, is a Privately held company commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft....
    's remote sensing spacecraft: QuickBird
    QuickBird

    QuickBird is a high-resolution commercial earth observation satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe and launched in 2001 as the first satellite in a constellation of three scheduled to be in orbit by 2008....
     (with Orbital Sciences Corporation
    Orbital Sciences Corporation

    Orbital Sciences Corporation is a Dulles, Virginia, Virginia company which specializes in satellite launch and manufacture. Its Launch Systems Group is heavily involved with National Missile Defense launch systems....
    ), WorldView I, and WorldView II
  • The instrumentation for the Spitzer Space Telescope
    Spitzer Space Telescope

    The Spitzer Space Telescope is an infrared space observatory. It is the fourth and final of NASA's Great Observatories program.The planned nominal mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch expectation that the mission could extend to five or slightly more years until the onboard liquid helium supply was exhausted....
    . Ball Aerospace developed the Cryogenic Telescope Assembly (CTA) and two of the three science instruments: the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS).
  • Instrument packages for the Hubble Telescope, including the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), all which will be installed on the observatory during the Space Shuttle
    Space Shuttle

    NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
     servicing mission scheduled for 2008. When the servicing mission is complete, all of Hubble's scientific instruments will be of Ball Aerospace manufacture.
  • AEROS
    AEROS (satellite)

    AEROS satellite was to study the science of the upper atmosphere and ionospheric F region's solar ultraviolet radiation. Aeros was built by Ball Aerospace for a co-operative project between NASA and the Bundesministerium f?r Foschung, Federal Republic of Germany....
  • CALIPSO
    CALIPSO

    CALIPSO is a joint NASA and CNES environmental satellite, built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28, 2006....
    , a joint NASA and CNES
    CNES

    The is the France government space agency . Its headquarters are located in central Paris. It operates out of the Centre Spatial Guyanais, but also has payloads launched from other space centres operated by other countries....
     environmental spacecraft
  • CloudSat
    CloudSat

    CloudSat is a NASA Earth observation satellite, which was launched on a Delta II rocket on 28 April 2006. It uses radar to measure the altitude and properties of clouds, adding to information on the relationship between clouds and climate in order to help resolve questions about global warming....
    , a NASA
    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
     Earth observation spacecraft
  • Deep Impact
    Deep Impact (space mission)

    Deep Impact is an ongoing NASA space probe launched on 12 January 2005 that was designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet 9P/Tempel by colliding a section of the spacecraft into the comet....
     spacecraft. Ball Aerospace designed and built the spacecraft and all of its instrument packages for NASA
    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
    .
  • Star trackers for NASA's Space Shuttle program
    Space Shuttle program

    NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System , is the United States government's current Human spaceflight launch vehicle....
  • The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
    Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

    NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit.When MRO entered orbit there were five other spacecraft in orbit of or on Mars: Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, and two Mars Exploration Rovers; a then record for mo...
     (MRO) HiRISE
    HiRISE

    The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 65 kg, $40 million instrument was built under the direction of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.....
     camera
  • Joint Strike Fighter
    F-35 Lightning II

    The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a Fighter aircraft#Fifth generation jet fighters , single-seat, single-engine, Stealth aircraft-capable military aviation strike fighter, a Multirole combat aircraft that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and Aerial warfare missions....
     (JSF) conformal antennas
  • High-Gain Antenna Gimbal (HGAG) and the Panoramic-camera Mast Assembly (PMA)for the Mars Exploration Rover
    Mars Exploration Rover

    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission is an ongoing robotic space mission mission of exploring Mars , that began in 2003 with the sending of two rover s ? Spirit rover and Opportunity rover ? to explore the Martian surface and geology....
  • Orbiting Solar Observatory
    Orbiting Solar Observatory

    The Orbiting Solar Observatory was the name of a series of nine NASA satellites built by Ball Aerospace to study the sun, of which eight were launched successfully between 1962 and 1975 using Delta rockets....
     (OSO)
  • Infrared Astronomical Satellite
    IRAS

    The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was the first-ever space-based observatory to perform a astronomical survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths....
     (IRAS). Ball Aerospace developed and built the cryogenically
    Cryogenics

    In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. Rather than the familiar temperature scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius, cryogenicists use the Kelvin scales....
     cooled
    Cooling

    Cooling is the Heat transfer of thermal energy via thermal radiation, heat conduction or convection. It may also refer to:...
     telescope
    Reflecting telescope

    A reflecting telescope is an optical telescope which uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image. The reflecting telescope was invented in the 17th century as an alternative to the refracting telescope which, at that time, was a design that suffered from severe chromatic aberration....
    , dewar
    Vacuum flask

    A vacuum flask is a storage vessel or insulated shipping container which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment....
     and sunshade
  • The Mast Mounted Sight for the OH-58D Kiowa helicopter
  • SBUV/2
    SBUV/2

    Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet RadiometerThe Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer, or SBUV/2, is an operational remote sensor which flies on NOAA weather satellites and monitors the density and distribution of ozone in the Earth?s atmosphere from six to 30 miles....
     Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer


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