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Land Imaging & Weather Ball at a Glance As technologies emerge and continue to become smaller, Ball is at the forefront of miniaturizing instruments for air and space-based applications, offering new, affordable solutions to our customers while continuing to We are based in Boulder, Broomfield and deliver the high-quality data they need to perform their missions. Westminster, Colorado, with locations in Greenbelt, Maryland; Dayton, Ball designs and builds innovative remote sensing instruments, spacecraft Ohio; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and and systems that support actionable environmental intelligence. From Arlington and Chantilly, Virgina. enabling more accurate weather forecasts to delivering insightful observations of our planet, we provide decision makers the information Community Involvement they need to protect what matters most: You, your family, our nation and Our employees excel in the fields our planet. Ball Aerospace provides science at any scale. From delivering entire of science and technology to serve Landsat (Present) missions to contributing critical subsystems, engineering support, their communities around the globe. Landsat 8 & 9 NASA/USGS Missions and operations, we value our role as a mission partner and strive to From participating in NASA review • Operational Land Imagers Go Beyond®. panels to donating dollars and hours • Cryogenic Cooler for Thermal Infrared Sensors to STEM outreach – Ball is committed Ball supports the decadal process, and our extensive heritage across Sustainable Land Imaging-Technology (Present) to contributing to the larger aerospace a wide breadth of NASA science and exploration mission classes • Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer community to ensure a better tomorrow. informs our development of technology that will enable the science • Reduced Envelope Multi-spectral Imager of tomorrow. • NASA review panels • Landsat Calibration Satellite • NASA studies and working groups • TransCal • Decadal and white paper • Reduced Envelope Multi-Spectral Infrared contributions Radiometer • NASA group achievement awards and Polar Satellite Observatories other public service awards Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership (Present) • Professional society engagement • Spacecraft • Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite instrument Joint Polar Satellite System-1 Present) • Spacecraft • Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite instrument Joint Polar Satellite System-24 Future) • Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite instruments Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space Mission Present) • Highly-calibrated infrared cubesat-compatible, miniaturized instrument STEM Outreach (2020 Space-Borne Microwave Radar Weather Systems STEM outreach Global Precipitation Measurement (Present) $701K donations • Microwave Imager Images (Left): Hubble System Follow-On (Future) Hours volunteered Telescope; Top Right to Bottom 4,072 to STEM outreach* Right): New Horizons – Ralph • Spacecraft Imager; Deep Impact. • Microwave instrument Students impacted • System software 6,900 through outreach* Libera (Future) • Space-based instrument Ball Corp. North $5.8M America donations Space Weather Follow-On (Future) • Solar data and imagery *North America only

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Ball Aerospace played a variety of roles in all four of NASA’s From major directed missions like to small ride-share opportunities such as CIRiS and TEMPO, Astrophysics Great Observatories. We continue to leverage or from serving as prime contractor to having a more focused role, we work closely with our partners to ensure innovative technologies developed for these missions for mission success and deliver science at any scale. use in the next-generation of space telescopes, such as the Our customer’s mission is our greatest priority. With a strong focus on PI-led science, we deliver excellence James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), the Nancy Grace across the entire program. From concept to launch, our scientists and engineers are involved every step of the Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST and beyond. way. We deliver innovative space solutions and remain cost conscious, always focused on our customers’ goals.

Hubble Space Telescope Europa Clipper Discovery • Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph ETHEMIS Instrument Support Kepler/K2  Complete Flight System • Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement • Radiation modeling and instrument • Spacecraft and photometer • Advanced Camera for Surveys radiation mitigation design • Systems integration and testing • Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph • Radiation testing of two candidate • Operations support • Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph microbolometer detectors and Deep Impact/EPOXI  Complete Flight • Cosmic Origins Spectrograph electronics System • Wide Field Camera 3 • Two spacecraft • Two trackers New Frontiers • Two imagers • Five major leave-behind equipment subsystems New Horizons – Ralph Imager • One imager/spectrometer • Eight custom tools for servicing • Visible imager and an infrared spectrometer INVEST Compton Gamma Ray Observatory MIDEX CIRiS Compact Infrared Radiometer in • Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment Space • Two fixed-head standard star trackers SPHEREx: Spectro-Photometer for • Compact Infrared Radiometer in the History of the universe, Epoch of Space instrument Chandra XRay Observatory Reionization and ices Exploration (in • Instrument integration and system • Aspect Camera and Science Instrument Module development) level testing • Spacecraft • Telescope LCIRiS Lunar Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space (in development) • Infrared Spectrograph WISE / NEOWISE Near Earth Object • Explore the Moon’s surface, map • Multiband Imaging Photometer NEO Wide-field Infrared Survey temperature distribution • Cryogenic telescope assembly Explorer (WISE • Ball-built instrument, adapting • Spacecraft from CIRiS James Webb Space Telescope • Flight system integration and testing • Designed and built the advanced optical technology and • Mission operations Solar Cruiser & GLIDE lightweight mirror system SMEX • Technology Demo – photons for • Designed mirror control electronics and algorithms propulsion in space IXPE Imaging X-ray Polarimetry • Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Explorer (in development) Dynamic Exosphere (Mission of • Spacecraft • Partnered with NASA GSFC to design and develop Opportunity) • Instrument integration and system the Opto-Mechanical Assembly for the Wide Field Images (Top Left to Bottom level testing EVI1 Instrument (WFI Left): Compton, Chandra, • Supporting WFI assembly, integration and test Hubble, Spitzer, James Webb, TEMPO Tropospheric Emissions: and Roman. Images (Top Right to Bottom Monitoring Pollution Ultraviolet Right): Kepler, Deep Impact, ULTRATM Images (Top Right to Bottom Spectrometer CIRiS, Solar Cruiser, and TEMPO. Right): Europa Clipper (Credit: • Instrument • Technology development toward next generation NASA, New Horizons (Credit: astrophysics flagship NASA/JPLCaltech), WISE, and IXPE.