SPECIALIZED TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS Kepler/K2 Ball delivers affordable, ingenious HIRISE solutions to solve its customers’ Ball designed and built the High toughest planetary, astronomical Resolution Imaging Science and space situational awareness Experiment (HiRISE), NASA’s Mars challenges. Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. HiRISE is the largest telescopic KEPLER AND K2 camera ever sent into orbit around Ball designed and built the another planet and is able to identify photometer and spacecraft and images as small as a coffee table. supports mission operations for NASA’s exoplanet-hunting Predicting weather and monitoring Kepler mission. The photometer the Earth’s environment for civil continuously measures the and military needs alike, Ball has a brightness of 150,000 stars, allowing consistent track record of delivering it to detect changes in brightness affordable instruments to its due to a passing planet. The customers and has experience with pointing precision of the spacecraft both fixed-price and cost-plus Earth is controlled to within a few milli- observation instruments. arcseconds and its photometer 2009 features a focal plane array of 42 COS Design Life (HST) Months Actual 2009 charge coupled devices to collect the WFC3 Still Operating as (HST) of December 2016 photons of light observed by Kepler. 1997 STIS 179 (HST) Repaired after 84 months, still operational Now in phase two of operations, 1997 NICMOS 179 (HST) Underwent on-orbit repairs; currently inactive known as K2, the telescope is 2002 ACS (HST) Partially operational conducting new research into planet 2003 IRS 159 formation and stellar structure, as (Spitzer) 2003 MIPS 159 well as planet evolution (Spitzer) Great Observatory Instruments 1991 OSSE 116 and activity. (Compton)

2010 SBSS SBSS 2009 Kepler/K2 Providing critical 24/7 space (Photometer) 2006 120 situational awareness on-orbit, Ralph 2005 Closest encounter to Pluto, July 14 Ball was responsible for delivering Deep Impact/ 104 EPOXI Lost spacecraft communications 2005 the entire space segment for the HiRISE 130

Specialized Instruments (MRO) Space Based Space Surveillance 2014 CAVIS (SBSS) satellite. The SBSS agile (WorldView-3) 2014 GMI gimbaled visible sensor accurately (GPM) 2013 OLI detects space objects with increased (LandSat 8) 2011 capacity and improved timeliness, OMPS (NPP) With six decades of experience, Ball Aerospace is the 2009 sensitivity and overall flexibility. SBUV/2 ® (FM-8)* *8 built; all exceeded lifetime GO BEYOND WITH BALL. provider of choice for leading-edge imaging systems. 2007 WorldView-1 108 Ball has consistently delivered reliable and affordable 2006 CALIPSO 120 instruments that span the electromagnetic spectrum 2001 SAGE III for a wide range of military, intelligence, civil and Spacecraft failure 2001 168 commercial applications. Earth Observation Instruments QuickBird 1984 SAGE II 216 1978 CZCS D3134 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 250 Months

Ball Aerospace 303-939-6100 • Fax: 303-939-6104 • [email protected] • www.ball.com/aerospace Copyright 12/2016, Ball Aerospace D3134 Top to bottom: OSSE, seven Hubble Scientfic Instruments, AspectCamer/Science Instrument OVERVIEW Module, Spitzer and JWST EARTH OBSERVATION As both a spacecraft and instrument was launched, a spherical anomaly distorted its imagery, and Ball was developer, Ball has a unique Predicting weather and monitoring (GPM) mission’ s success by allowing clouds and aerosols. Its primary understanding of instrument called upon to solve the problem. the Earth’s environment for civil for temporal sampling of rainfall laser successfully fired more than Since restoring the telescope’s integration and outstanding and military needs alike, Ball has a accumulations, as well as more imaging capability in 1993, Ball 1.6 billion shots on orbit and its experience delivering end-to-end consistent track record of delivering frequent and higher quality data has built six more instruments for redundant laser has registered more systems. This knowledge gives affordable instruments to its collection. Hubble. Currently, all of the scientific than three billion laser shots. Ball a mission systems expertise customers and has experience with instruments aboard the telescope that translates into a proven ability both fixed-price and cost-plus Earth OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER to fulfill our customers’ most are Ball-built. observation instruments. To continue 40 years of land data challenging requirements. Ball records and to meet the nation’s specializes in providing advanced CHANDRA X-RAY MOIRE OBSERVATORY imaging requirement, Ball was called electro-optical, infrared and multi- Ball completed the Membrane upon to build the Operational Land spectral imaging systems for civil, For the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Optical Imager for Real-Time commercial, defense and restricted Ball built the Aspect Camera and Exploitation (MOIRE), a Defense Imager (OLI) for Landsat 8. OLI is missions. Science Instrument Module to help Advanced Research Projects Agency a highly calibrated, precise, multi- identify hot spots in the universe, (DARPA)-funded program that spectral imaging instrument that such as exploded stars and matter aimed to provide persistent, real- enables better spatial resolution GREAT near black holes. time tactical video to the warfighter and greater sensitivity to brightness SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE using a large aperture telescope. The and color than any previous Landsat program demonstrated Ball’s ability OBSERVATORIES Ball built the “eyes” of Spitzer — mission. OLI has set the new to manufacture large collection Landsat standard for radiometric and also called the Cryogenic Telescope area telescopes (up to 20 meters); geometric accuracy. Ball is proud to have contributed Assembly — and two of the three the large structures needed to hold science instruments onboard this to all four of NASA’s Great the optics tight and flat; and the WORLDVIEW-1 Observatories, including the infrared observatory. additional optical elements needed Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, to turn a diffraction-based optic into Ball built the fixed-price the Hubble Space Telescope, the JAMES WEBB SPACE a wide bandwidth imaging device WorldView-1 60-centimeter Chandra X-ray Observatory and TELESCOPE telescope and assembled the entire the Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA Carrying on the legacy of the Great CAVIS instrument to provide high resolution designed the Great Observatories Observatories, Ball developed the The Ball-built Cloud, Aerosol, imaging capabilities to DigitalGlobe. to make astronomical studies over optical telescope for NASA’s James Water Vapor, Ice, Snow (CAVIS) The WorldView-1 spacecraft was Webb Space Telescope, the world’s many different wavelengths (visible, atmospheric instrument aboard also built by Ball and is capable of gamma rays, X-rays and infrared) to next-generation space observatory. WorldView-3, a commercial imagery collecting up to 500,000 square provide a greater understanding of satellite also built by Ball, provides The system includes 18 1.3-meter kilometers (200,000 sq. mi.) of the universe. atmospheric correction data to hexagonal mirror segments to improve WorldView-3’s imagery. half-meter imagery per day with compose the 6.5-meter primary COMPTON GAMMA RAY Ball provided the CAVIS instrument extremely precise geolocation mirror, making it the largest mirror OBSERVATORY at a fixed-price and substantial cost accuracy. ever flown in space. Ball leads the Ball built the Oriented Scintillation savings by using a modular and development, design, manufacture, Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE)and command product for the electronics CALIPSO integration and test of Webb’s two star trackers for the Compton designs, focal plane detectors and The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared primary, secondary, tertiary and fine- Gamma Ray Observatory. OSSE, spectral filter. Pathfinder Satellite Observations steering mirrors. along with three other instruments, (CALIPSO) mission is dedicated to GLOBAL PRECIPITATION Top to Bottom: MOIRE, GMI and OLI. detects high-energy radiation. studying the impact that clouds and MEASUREMENT-MICROWAVE aerosols have on the Earth’s climate. HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE IMAGER (GMI) The lidar scans the atmosphere This Great Observatory almost This Ball-instrument is setting the with green and infrared laser light never observed clearly without the new standard for calibration for the assistance of the Ball-developed scientific community’s radiometer and detects backscatter from corrective optics that act as Hubble’s needs. This imager is central to the eyeglasses. After the telescope Global Precipitation Measurement