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Science at Any Scale Learn More About How 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. 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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-24 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 Space Weather 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. 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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. 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