OMPS SBUV/2 An advanced suite of three hyperspectral instruments, OMPS Under contract to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Weather & Environmental measures atmospheric ozone and determines how ozone and NOAA, Ball built and launched nine Solar Backscatter concentration varies with altitude. Ultraviolet Radiometer/2s (SBUV/2) between 1984 and 2009. SBUV/2, an operational remote sensor, flies on MISSIONS NOAA weather satellites and monitors the density and distribution of ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere from 6 to 30 miles. SBUV/2 looks at the Earth’s atmosphere and the reflected sunlight at wavelengths characteristic of ozone. The SBUV/2 helped discover the ozone hole above Antarctica in 1987.

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OMPS extends more than 30 years of total-ozone and ozone- profile records. These records are used by ozone-assessment researchers and policy makers to track the health of the ozone layer. OMPS products, when combined with cloud predictions, help to produce better ultraviolet index forecasts. OMPS is one of five instruments that launched aboard Suomi ffff NPP in 2011. Ball designed, built and tested OMPS. The SBUV/2 company also supported instrument integration for the Suomi NPP mission and provided launch and post-launch support. Environmental Intelligence A second OMPS flight unit built by Ball will fly on JPSS-1. Products CALIPSO Ball has deep expertise in environmental intelligence Part of NASA’s Earth System products for national security. Science Pathfinder program, Our customers include: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite • The National Air & Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Observations (CALIPSO) is a • The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) mission dedicated to studying • The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the impact that clouds • The U.S. Army and aerosols have on the • Other defense and intelligence customers Earth’s climate. Scientists are using data from CALIPSO to Ball employs world-class scientists, engineers and developers construct 3-D models of the who analyze, interpret and model sensor data and who Accurate weather prediction is essential to maintaining atmosphere that improve our CALIPSO prototype tools, processes and products to solve our commerce, national security and our quality of life. With customers’ most challenging problems. ability to predict future climate change. world-class resources and nearly 50 years of experience Ball built the lidar and wide-field camera instruments, Our focus is on remote sensing data, particularly overhead in weather and environmental spacecraft and sensors, built the communications equipment, and integrated persistent infrared (OPIR), multispectral and hyperspectral. Ball Aerospace continues to improve the ability to predict the payload for the CALIPSO program. CALIPSO launched In the areas of electro-optical, infrared and atmospheric with CloudSat on April 28, 2006 as part of the “A-Train” weather and monitor the Earth’s environment for civil and phenomenology, our products and services mitigate spacecraft constellation. military needs alike. atmospheric effects to improve imagery. Plus, we provide utility assessment for battlespace awareness and environmental intelligence products.

Agility to innovate, Strength to deliver Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. • 1600 Commerce St. • Boulder, CO 80301 • 303-939-6100 • Fax: 303-939-6104 [email protected] • www.ballaerospace.com 6/15 D0531 Spacecraft Instruments Joint Polar Satellite System Ball built the CloudSat spacecraft; the company also tested and TEMPO The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) mission will provide integrated the Cloud Profiling Radar payload built by the Jet NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission essential data for civil and military weather forecasting, Propulsion Laboratory and other hardware contributions from will, for the first time, make accurate observations of tropospheric storm tracking and climate monitoring. Data from JPSS the Canadian Space Agency. CloudSat launched with CALIPSO pollution over North America with high resolution and frequency. on April 28, 2006 as part of a spacecraft constellation called the will be used by the National Weather Service in models The Ball-built TEMPO instrument, a geostationary ultraviolet visible “A-Train.” for long-term weather forecasting and will allow scientists spectrometer, will provide daylight measurements of ozone, nitrogen and forecasters to monitor and predict weather patterns In 2007, NASA awarded the Ball CloudSat team with its Group dioxide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde and aerosols. Ball is building the with greater speed and accuracy. JPSS is also key to the Achievement Award for outstanding achievement in the design, spectrometer with a two-axis scan mirror, drawing on valuable heritage continuity of long-standing climate measurements. development, assembly, integration, test, launch and early orbit from some of its other highly successful programs, such as OMPS and the operations of the CloudSat spacecraft. James Webb Space Telescope. QuikSCAT The instrument’s high resolution will allow scientists to track pollution at The Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) mission has been a valuable micro urban scales (an area approximating 1.25 miles by 2.8 miles). It is source of climate research for oceanographers, meteorologists also expected to provide data that will help scientists improve air quality and climatologists. Designed to fly for two years after its 1999 predication accuracy by 50 percent. launch, QuikSCAT far surpassed its mission design life before Expected to launch in late 2017 with a 2-year design life, TEMPO will share ceasing to gather ocean wind speed data in 2009. a ride on a commercial satellite as a hosted payload to an orbit about Suomi NPP Winds over the oceans affect air-sea changes in heat, moisture, 22,000 miles above Earth’s equator. Ball designed and built the Suomi NPP satellite bus and gases and particulates that are important for weather TEMPO is the first NASA Earth Venture Instrument mission and will its OMPS instrument, integrated all five instruments, and predictions. For 10 years, QuikSCAT recorded sea surface wind be the first UV-visible air quality spectrometer in geostationary orbit. performed satellite-level testing and launch support. The speed and direction on more than 90 percent of the Earth’s TEMPO is also the first Ball instrument to be hosted on a geostationary Suomi NPP spacecraft was built on the BCP 2000 bus. oceans and collected data over a 1,800-kilometer swath of land, communications satellite. ocean and ice each day. This long QuikSCAT data record has JPSS CloudSat become critical in detecting hurricanes, improving forecasts GMI

CloudSat is a mission that studies the effects of clouds on and weather warnings for sailors, and identifying changes in the The Ball-built Global Precipitation Measurement-Microwave Imager (GMI) Under contract to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, climate and weather. With capabilities 1,000 times more polar ice cap. is playing an essential role in the Earth’s weather and environmental Ball is designing and building the JPSS-1 satellite bus and forecasting. sensitive than typical weather radar, CloudSat uses millimeter- In addition to building the QuikSCAT spacecraft bus, Ball the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument, wavelength radar to measure the altitude and properties integrated and tested the scatterometer payload, facilitated the GMI supports the Global Precipitation integrating all instruments, and performing satellite-level of clouds. This information is providing the first global spacecraft-to-launch vehicle integration and provided launch Measurement (GPM) mission, a joint effort testing and launch support. measurements of cloud properties that will help scientists and mission operations support. between NASA and the Japan Aerospace compile a database of cloud measurements, aiding in global The JPSS-1 spacecraft is a member of the Ball Configurable Exploration Agency (JAXA) to improve climate and weather prediction models. Platform (BCP) family of spacecraft designed for cost- climate, weather and hydrological predictions effective, remote sensing applications. JPSS-1 is built on by providing more accurate precipitation measurements from space. the BCP 2000 bus. Ball’s role in the GPM program includes the Suomi NPP design, development and fabrication of the GMI. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) This imager is central to the mission’ s success mission is the bridge between the nation’s Earth Observing and allows for temporal sampling of rainfall System satellites and JPSS. The operational Suomi NPP accumulations, as well as more frequent and satellite launched Oct. 28, 2011 and is helping scientists higher quality data collection. understand and monitor our environment. It is also Roughly 8 feet tall, the GMI instrument is a providing vital near-term weather data to meteorologists. powerhouse of radiometry. Rotating at 32 GMI With its suite of advanced-technology remote sensing revolutions per minute, it will use two very stable calibration points on instruments, Suomi NPP provides images and data that each revolution to calibrate the data it has scanned. allow scientists to see the entire globe from space and Due to the ingenuity of Ball engineers to achieve consistent, steady further understand oceans, clouds, ozone, snow, ice, calibration, GMI has set a new standard of calibration for the scientific vegetation and atmosphere. community.

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