BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced that Rob Strain will be joining the company as chief operating officer (COO) effective March 2012. In light of the continued significant business growth and opportunity, this new position was created to ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) onboard the NPP satellite began collecting Earthview image science and solar calibration data on January 24, 2012. The OMPS data will provide information about the global distribution of ozone ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has submitted a mission concept study to NASA for the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space. Ball Aerospace was one of four companies awarded a six-month contract by NASA to develop a mission ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has announced that the final six mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope have completed cryogenic temperature testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The final testing verifies that the 18-mirror composite primary mirror ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program under contract to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Ball Aerospace is incrementally demonstrating technologies needed to develop ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered two Phased Array Antenna (PAA) Engineering Development Units (EDUs) for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The PAA serves as a primary data and voice communication link for ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA's future deep space human exploration missions. The five companies ... read more

DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded four task order contracts valued at more than $21 million to support the National Air & Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio as part of Ball's larger Advanced Technical ... read more

DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded four task order contracts worth more than $17 million to develop and integrate enhanced operational capabilities for the U.S. Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). Under the task orders, Ball Aerospace will spend 18 months ... read more

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's NPP satellite built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit this morning at 2:48 PDT (5:48 EDT). NASA's first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate and key weather data lifted off from ... read more

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. NPP satellite is encapsulated inside the fairing (nose cone) of a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle in preparation for liftoff ... read more

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. NPP satellite is encapsulated inside the fairing (nose cone) of a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle in preparation for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base Space, October 28, ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered Wavefront Sensing & Control (WFS&C) software for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. The WFS&C software contains the sophisticated mathematical algorithms that will be used to align ... read more

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is one of four companies that will study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a contract to NASA. Each company was awarded up to $600K to accomplish this half-year effort. The contract calls for Ball ... read more