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BALL CONFIGURABLE PLATFORM the Combined BCP Series Has Flown for Under Fixed-Price Or Cost-Reimbursable More Than an Equivalent of 85 Years — Contract Types FEATURES PROVEN RELIABILITY the-art technology demonstration missions, BALL CONFIGURABLE PLATFORM The combined BCP series has flown for under fixed-price or cost-reimbursable more than an equivalent of 85 years — contract types. consistently exceeding spacecraft’s design life A WIDE RANGE OF MISSIONS — demonstrating Ball’s commitment to quality and reliability at an affordable price. The highly agile Ball Aerospace BCP spacecraft line meets customer needs CONSISTENT, INCREMENTAL from initial technology development to ENHANCEMENT prototype demonstration to full, operational mission. The BCP line is flown in a variety Ball continuously evolves our BCP spacecraft of orbits with a wide assortment of family. A long and dependable BCP history payloads, including electro-optical payloads enables incremental improvements to the (imagers and limb scanners) with high spacecraft capability with a focus on reduced accuracy pointing requirements. As a space cost; including high-power systems, low- instrument developer, Ball Aerospace applies mass energy storage/ generation subsystems, its payload/instrument accommodation higher agility, advanced propulsion and higher experience to deliver end-to-end space capacity telecommunications. This approach systems. Our experience gives Ball to spacecraft design, development and Aerospace a mission systems expertise that manufacturing enables Ball to confidently translates into a proven ability to fulfill the support operational missions and state-of- most challenging mission requirements. 2014 Upcoming Launches WorldView-3 GPIM Q2 2018 2009 WorldView-2 2007 BCP 5000 BCP WorldView-1 122 2017 JPSS-1 Design Life 2011 Months Actual Suomi NPP Still Operating as of Dec. 2017 2010 SBSS 2009 Kepler 105 2006 CloudSat 139 Deep Impact 2005 104 EPOXI 2003 BCP 2000 BCP ICESat 2001 QuickBird 160 1999 QuikSCAT 221 1998 GFO 130 1995 RADARSAT 210 When challenging missions require payload and spacecraft 2009 ® WISE GO BEYOND WITH BALL. flexibility at an affordable price, we have flight-proven Orbital 2007 spacecraft that is the reliable choice — Ball Configurable Express BCP 300 BCP 2000 Platform (BCP). MTI 212 2013 STPSat-3 Built on a readily configurable design, BCP is ideally 2010 suited for a range of mission including: space-based STPSat-2 environmental monitoring, deep space exploration, BCP 100 BCP 1994 DARPASAT Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance and space 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 250 control missions. Our BCP is your solution in meeting Months sc_lifetime_BCP_003 essential mission and programmatic needs Ball Aerospace 303-939-6100 • Fax: 303-939-6104 • [email protected] • www.ball.com/aerospace Copyright 12/2017, Ball Aerospace D1920 left: STPSat-2, GPIM BCP-2000 Left: Kepler, Suomi NPP, SBSS, QuickBird BCP-100 The BCP-100 is your small satellite STPSAT-2 GPIM The BCP-2000 is a stable, agile, KEPLER objects. Using a space situational solution, offering a rapid response Designed and built for the United A Technology Demonstration high-throughput spacecraft designed awareness configuration the BCP- for meeting mission and budget States Air Force and launched Mission managed by NASA, the Launched in March 2009, NASA’s for high-performance missions. The 2000 demonstrated Ball’s ability to requirements. The spacecraft is an November 2010 aboard a Minotaur Green Propellant Infusion Mission Kepler telescope is providing BCP-2000 accommodates Earth develop and integrate a high agility ESPA-class design measuring 24 IV, STPSat-2 demonstrates the utility (GPIM) is expected to launch aboard unprecedented exoplanet remote-sensing payloads requiring two-axis gimballed payload. inches wide by 28 inches deep by of standard payload interfaces for a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in 2017. This discoveries. The very stable line-of- precision pointing control and rapid 38 inches high and has the capacity small payloads. It was the first use of mission uses a BCP-100 spacecraft sight control on this BCP-2000 Deep QUICKBIRD to accommodate up to four separate target selection flexibility. Space bus platform points a 95-cm the BCP-100 platform. bus with an Aerojet-Rocketdyne This firm, fixed-price earth imaging payloads. telescope with a 95-megapixel focal modular propulsion system to test SUOMI NPP configuration BCP-2000 spacecraft STPSAT-3 plane — one of the largest and most the benefits and capabilities of non- Launched October 2011, this established an industry milestone Built in only 47 days for the complex to fly in space. toxic, “green” fuel developed by the weather and environmental for commercial remote sensing with United States Air Force, STPSat-3 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory monitoring satellite for NASA and SBSS its world-class imagery. Built for demonstrated the capability to easily at Edwards Air Force Base in NOAA is a BCP-2000 configuration. Launched September 2010, the DigitalGlobe, QuickBird provided the replace payloads with almost no California, offers higher performance Suomi NPP demonstrates Ball’s Space Based Space Surveillance highest resolution Earth imagery that changes to the as-built spacecraft but is safer to handle and easier on ability to accommodate five (SBSS) spacecraft is revolutionizing was commercially available at the bus. The vehicle was launched the environment than traditional government-furnished instruments the United States Air Force’s time of its October 2001 launch. aboard a Minotaur I in November chemical fuels such as hydrazine under a firm, fixed-price contract. ability to detect and track space 2013, carrying six payloads now used in thrusters. This BCP-2000 bus module is also representing multiple government used for the first Joint Polar Satellite organizations. System (JPSS-1). Left: WISE, Orbital Express NEXTSAT WorldView-3 BCP-5000 Our BCP-5000 offers our highest performance, most capable WORLDVIEW-1 bands) images — enabling Ball BCP-300 to further support our customer spacecraft — DigitalGlobe’s choice Launched September 2007, to enhance contributions to the for WorldView-1, -2 and -3 space WorldView-1 represented a new geospatial information market. vehicles. This powerful spacecraft commercial standard in rapid Ideal for both operational and WISE ORBITAL EXPRESS NEXTSAT accommodates next-generation targeting, image resolution and optical and synthetic aperture WORLDVIEW-3 technology demonstration missions, A NASA Explorer class mission, the The Orbital Express NEXTSAT— data handling. The images from radar remote-sensing payloads. Launched in August 2014, the BCP-300 offers an enhanced Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer assisted in the successful WorldView-1 demonstrate the The BCP-5000 provides increased WorldView-3 collects 8-band, capabilities from BCP-100. (WISE) launched December 2009. demonstration of on-orbit spacecraft’s precise geo-location power in standard increments; higher short-wave infrared imagery A BCP-300, WISE studies the entire servicing. This BCP-300 showcased capabilities and its exquisite CMG- agility with control moment gyros along with all of the features of its sky in the infrared with far greater capabilities for autonomous based Earth imaging capability. (CMGs) — providing rapid retargeting predecessors. Ball also developed sensitivity than any previous mission rendezvous, docking and component capability with stability for the WORLDVIEW-2 the Cloud, Aerosol, Water Vapor, and continues producing millions of replacement, as well as refueling for Ice, Snow atmospheric instrument finest-spatial-resolution payloads. Launched in October 2009, images of stars, asteroids, comets the Defense Advanced Research — enabling images corrections due The BCP-5000 is the quintessential WorldView-2 provides 0.5 meter and galaxies. Projects Agency. to atmospheric haze, soot, dust or choice for firm, fixed-priced panchromatic resolution and other obscurities. spacecraft missions. 1.8-meter multispectral (8 spectral .
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