Earth Observation Continued Operational Land WorldView-1 spacecraft was also built by Ball Imager and is capable of collecting up to 500,000 To continue 40 years square kilometers (200,000 sq. mi.) of half- of land data records meter imagery per day with extremely precise and meet the nation’s geolocation accuracy. imaging requirement, instruments Ball was called upon to build the Operational CALIPSO Land Imager (OLI) for Landsat 8. OLI is a highly The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar calibrated, precise, multi-spectral imaging and Infrared Pathfinder instrument that enables better spatial resolution Satellite Observations and greater sensitivity to brightness and color (CALIPSO) mission is than any previous Landsat mission. OLI has set dedicated to studying the new Landsat standard for radiometric and the impact that clouds and aerosols have on the geometric accuracy. Earth’s climate. The lidar scans the atmosphere WorldView-1 with green and infrared laser light and detects Ball built the fixed-price WorldView-1 backscatter from clouds and aerosols. Its primary 60-centimeter telescope and assembled the laser successfully fired more than 1.6 billion entire instrument to provide high resolution shots on orbit and its redundant laser has imaging capability to DigitalGlobe. The registered more than three billion laser shots.

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Specilized Instruments (MRO) 2014 CAVIS (WorldView-3) 2014 GMI With six decades of experience, Ball Aerospace is the (GPM) Upcoming Launches 2013 OLI provider of choice for leading-edge imaging systems. (LandSat 8) OMPS (JPSS) 2017 2011 OMPS GEMS 2018 Ball has consistently delivered reliable and affordable (NPP) TEMPO 2018 2009 James Webb 2018 SBUV/2 instruments that span the electromagnetic spectrum (FM-8)* *8 built; all exceeded lifetime 2007 for a wide range of military, intelligence, civil and WorldView-1 2006 commercial applications. 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This knowledge to help identify hot spots in the universe, such as Kepler and K2 and has experience with both fixed-price and cost-plus gives Ball a mission systems expertise that exploded stars and matter near black holes. Earth observation instruments. Ball designed and built the translates into a proven ability to fulfill our Spitzer Space Telescope photometer and spacecraft MOIRE customers’ most challenging requirements. Ball built the “eyes” of Spitzer and supports mission Ball completed Membrane Ball specializes in providing advanced electro- — also called the Cryogenic operations for NASA’s Optical Imager for Real-Time optical, infrared and multi-spectral imaging Telescope Assembly — and exoplanet-hunting Kepler Exploitation (MOIRE), a Defense systems for civil, commercial, defense and two of the three science mission. The photometer Advanced Research Projects restricted missions. instruments onboard this continuously measures Agency (DARPA)-funded Ball Instruments on the infrared observatory. the brightness of 150,000 program that aimed to provide Great Observatories stars, allowing it to detect persistent, real-time tactical changes in brightness video to the warfighter using a Ball is proud to have contributed to all four James Webb Space Telescope due to a passing planet. The pointing precision of large aperture telescope. The program demonstrated Ball’s of NASA’s Great Observatories, including the Carrying on the legacy of the spacecraft is controlled to within a few milli- ability to manufacture large collection area telescopes (up Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Hubble the Great Observatories, arcseconds and its photometer features a focal plane to 20 meters); the large structures needed to hold the optics Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory Ball is currently array of 42 charge coupled devices (CCDs) to collect tight and flat; and the additional optical elements needed and the Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA designed developing the optical the photons of light observed by Kepler. Now in to turn a diffraction-based optic into a wide bandwidth the Great Observatories to make astronomical telescope for NASA’s phase two of operations, known as K2, the telescope imaging device studies over many different wavelengths (visible, James Webb Space is conducting new research into planet formation CAVIS gamma rays, X-rays and infrared) to provide a Telescope, the world’s and stellar structure, as well as planet evolution The Cloud, Aerosol, Water Vapor, Ice, greater understanding of the universe. next-generation space observatory. and activity. Snow (CAVIS) atmospheric instrument Compton Gamma Ray Observatory The system includes 18 1.3-meter hexagonal mirror SBSS aboard the commercial imagery segments to compose the 6.5-meter primary mirror, Ball built the Providing critical 24/7 space satellite, WorldView-3, also built by making it the largest mirror ever flown in space. Ball Oriented Scintilla- situational awareness on- Ball, provides atmosphere correction is leading the development, design, manufacture, tion Spectrometer orbit, Ball was responsible data to improve WorldView-3’s integration and test of Webb’s primary, secondary, Experiment (OSSE) for delivering the entire imagery. Ball was able to provide the tertiary and fine-steering mirrors. and two star space segment for the Space CAVIS instrument at a fixed-price and trackers for the Based Space Surveillance substantial cost savings by using a Compton Gamma (SBSS) satellite. The SBSS modular and command product for the electronics designs, Ray Observatory (CGRO). OSSE, along with agile gimbaled visible sensor accurately detects focal plane detectors and spectral filter. three other instruments, detects high-energy space objects with increased capacity and improved radiation. Global Precipitation Measurement-Microwave timeliness, sensitivity and overall flexibility. Imager (GMI) Hubble Space Telescope HiRISE This Ball-instrument is setting the This Great Observatory almost never observed Ball designed and built the new standard for calibration for the clearly without the assistance of the Ball- High Resolution Imaging scientific community’s radiometer developed corrective optics that act as Hubble’s Science Experiment needs. This imager is central to the eyeglasses. After the telescope was launched, (HiRISE), a high-resolution Global Precipitation Measurement a spherical anomaly distorted its imagery, and camera, for NASA’s Mars (GPM) mission’ s success by allowing Ball was called upon to solve the problem. Since Reconnaissance Orbiter for temporal sampling of rainfall restoring the telescope’s imaging capability in mission. HiRISE is the largest telescopic camera ever accumulations, as well as more 1993, Ball has built six instruments for Hubble. sent into orbit around another planet and is able to frequent and higher quality Currently, all of the scientific instruments aboard identify images as small as a coffee table. data collection. the telescope are Ball-built.