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Demonstrating Containerized Software on Orbit

Demonstrating Containerized Software on Orbit

The next generation of satellite technology will be defined as much by its software as its hardware, and the driving force will be providing satellite operators with more flexibility. At the forefront of that effort is containerized software.
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Ball Aerospace Completes Focal Plane System Integration on Roman Space Telescope

Ball Aerospace Completes Focal Plane System Integration on Roman Space Telescope

Ball Aerospace has successfully finished the integration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Focal Plane System (FPS), taking another important step toward the eventual completion of NASA’s next flagship astrophysics observatory.
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Soaring Through the Clouds with BIRST

Soaring Through the Clouds with BIRST

Another incredible summer for the Ball Intern Remote Sensing Team (BIRST) has been added to the history books. Over about eight weeks, the 2023 interns and mentors at Ball Aerospace worked tirelessly to traverse through the full engineering lifecycle.
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Celebrating the 2023 Ball Aerospace Interns

Celebrating the 2023 Ball Aerospace Interns

We, at Ball Aerospace, are celebrating our 2023 summer interns! The passion and dedication they have shown during their time here has been nothing but incredible. Read about a few of the amazing interns that we’ve had the opportunity to work with this summer.
 
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Military Individual holding an American Flag

Connecting Service Members to Civilian Careers

Ball Aerospace team members share their experience going through the SkillBridge Program, which gives Active Duty military members a chance to gain valuable work experience through specific industry training and development before they’re even finished with their time in the military.

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TEMPO instrument opening new era for pollution tracking in North America

TEMPO instrument opening new era for pollution tracking in North America

Ball Aerospace built the Tropospheric Emission: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer, which will make hourly daytime measurements of major air pollutants, advancing our understanding of air quality across North America. 

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Legacy of Landsat

Legacy of Landsat

Since 1972, Landsat satellites have continuously acquired images of the Earth’s land surface, providing uninterrupted data objectively measuring changes impacting life on Earth.

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Engineers Week 2023 - Creating the Future

Engineers Week 2023 - Creating the Future

Ball Aerospace is proud to celebrate our engineers, technical professionals, scientists and all the team members who support our missions.

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New Tech Helps Make Fighter Pilots Safer

New Tech Helps Make Fighter Pilots Safer

Improving pilot safety and performance is a top priority for the DoD, and to address that need, Ball Aerospace has partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop the Integrated Cockpit Sensing (ICS) system.

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The Ball Aerospace Cryogenics team keeps its cool on big projects

The Ball Aerospace Cryogenics team keeps its cool on big projects

Ball Aerospace has been engaging in cryogenic work nearly since its inception over 50 years ago, expanding out from parts manufacturing to the prolific aerospace team it has today. 

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Another OMPS instrument sets out to keep watchful eye on ozone

Another OMPS instrument sets out to keep watchful eye on ozone

Ball Aerospace is celebrating the successful launch of NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) in the wee hours of November 10 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, CA.

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How to catch a ride to the sky

How to catch a ride to the sky

Another Year Of The Ball Intern Remote Sensing Team (BIRST) Payload Project For The Books

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First Images from James Webb Space Telescope

First Images from James Webb Space Telescope

Technology designed and built by Ball Aerospace enables NASA’s Webb Telescope to capture first images of unseen universe.

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Take Our Kids to Work Day affirms Ball’s commitment to STEM

Take Our Kids to Work Day affirms Ball’s commitment to STEM

Take Our Kids to Work Day is a national event that Ball Aerospace introduced as an annual company event in 2002.

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Bringing Together the Needs of Military and Commercial Users Could Finally Unlock the Market for Electronically Steerable Antennas

Bringing Together the Needs of Military and Commercial Users Could Finally Unlock the Market for Electronically Steerable Antennas

New architectures developed by Ball Aerospace leverage the overlapping interests and investments of government and commercial markets to unlock the full potential of ESA-based satellite communications and significantly accelerate its growth.

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Celebrating Women Shaping Our Future

Celebrating Women Shaping Our Future

For Women’s History Month we honor trailblazers who have made an impact on the Aerospace industry.

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 Engineering for the future to make a difference

Engineering for the future to make a difference

Ball Aerospace is proud to celebrate our engineers, technical professionals and scientists who support our missions.

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What was it like to work on the next great space observatory?

What was it like to work on the next great space observatory?

After years of developing new technologies, innovative designs and groundbreaking engineering, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) launched from French Guiana on December 25, 2021.
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Ball Aerospace IXPE Team has High Hopes for the Small Explorer

Ball Aerospace IXPE Team has High Hopes for the Small Explorer

Delivered by Ball Aerospace to Cape Canaveral, Fla. in early November, NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is scheduled to launch early December 9 from Kennedy Space Center.

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Home Automation for the Battlefield

Home Automation for the Battlefield

The collection, processing and integration of data within our daily lives is evolving so quickly it can be difficult to keep up. The government and military now turning to private industry to innovate at the speed of business, remain relevant and stay ahead in a highly competitive marketplace of great power competition.
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Ball at the Forefront of Onboard Processing With New AFRL Work

Ball at the Forefront of Onboard Processing With New AFRL Work

Ball Aerospace, together with the Air Force Research Laboratory, is exploring how to use state-of-the-art commercial electronics to enable “smart satellites” to process data in space – a key enabler for next-gen missions.
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Digital Engineering – A New Era

Digital Engineering – A New Era

The Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry is a rapidly evolving landscape, constantly seeking the latest and greatest technology or capability to propel our industry forward.
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CloudSat & CALIPSO – 15 Years of Critical Climate Science

CloudSat & CALIPSO – 15 Years of Critical Climate Science

Both satellites have been major contributors in understanding the processes that have major influence on climate (clouds, aerosols, phytoplankton/ice) and even weather models.
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How Ball Aerospace Engineers Imagine Tomorrow

How Ball Aerospace Engineers Imagine Tomorrow

This #EngineersWeek we celebrate our people who are powered by endless curiosity to create solutions and new ways of thinking that propel our progress forward and make our dreams a reality.
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