
LAND IMAGING & WEATHER As technologies emerge and continue to become BALL AT A GLANCE SCIENCE AT ANY SCALE smaller, Ball is at the forefront of miniaturizing instruments for air and space-based applications, Ball Aerospace employs more than 4,000 people. offering new, affordable solutions to our customers We are based in Boulder, Broomfield and while continuing to deliver the high-quality data they Westminster, Colorado, with locations in Greenbelt, need to perform their missions. Maryland, Dayton, Ohio, Albuquerque, New Ball designs and builds innovative remote sensing Mexico, Arlington and Chantilly, Virgina. instruments, spacecraft and systems that support actionable environmental intelligence. From enabling COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT more accurate weather forecasts to delivering insightful observations of our planet, we provide decision makers Our employees go beyond in the fields of science the information they need to protect what matters most: and technology to serve their communities around you, your family and our nation. the globe. From participating in NASA review panels to donating thousands of dollars and LANDSAT (PRESENT) hours to STEM outreach – Ball is committed to Landsat 8 and 9 NASA/USGS missions contributing to the larger aerospace community to • Operational Landsat Imagers ensure a better tomorrow. • Cryogenic Cooler for Thermal • NASA review panels Infrared Sensors • NASA Studies and Working Groups SUSTAINABLE LAND IMAGING- • Decadal & white paper contributions TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM (FUTURE) • Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer • NASA group achievement awards and other public service awards • Reduced Envelope Multi-Spectral Imager • Professional Society Engagement POLAR SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES (PRESENT) Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership • Spacecraft • Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite instrument Joint Polar Satellite System-1 • Spacecraft • Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite instrument STEM OUTREACH2018 COMPACT INFRARED RADIOMETER IN SPACE MISSION (PRESENT) 2018 donations to • Highly-calibrated infrared Cubesat- $1M STEM programs* compatible, miniaturized instrument SPACE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADAR WEATHER SYSTEMS 2018 hours volunteered Ball Aerospace provides science at any scale. From to STEM outreach* ® Global Precipitation Measurement (Present): 7,740 GO BEYOND WITH BALL. delivering entire missions to contributing component • Microwave Imager level expertise, we value our role as a mission partner ® Weather System Follow-on (Future): Students impacted and strive to Go Beyond . • Spacecraft 13,600 through outreach* *North America only Our extensive heritage across a wide breadth of • Microwave instrument NASA science and exploration mission classes informs • System software Total 2018 community our development of technology that will enable the $5.5M investments (global) science of tomorrow. Ball Aerospace 303-939-6100 • Fax: 303-939-6104 • [email protected] • www.ball.com/aerospace Copyright 5/2020 Ball Aerospace D3491 THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI)-LED SCIENCE Ball Aerospace played a variety of roles in all four of the Great Observatories, ranging From major directed missions such as the Europa Clipper, to small ride- in scale from tools and components to full share opportunities such as CIRiS and TEMPO, whether we serve as instrumentation. We continue to leverage prime or have a more focused role, we work closely with our partners innovative technologies developed for these to ensure mission success and deliver science at any scale. missions for use in the next-generation of space telescopes such as the James Webb Our customer’s mission is our greatest priority. With a strong focus on Space Telescope (Webb), the Nancy Grace PI-led science, we deliver excellence across the entire program. From Roman Space Telescope (formely WFIRST) concept to launch, our scientists and engineers are involved every step and beyond. of the way. We deliver innovative space solutions and remain cost conscious, always focused on our customer's goals. NANCY GRACE ROMAN SPACE TELESCOPE Image credits: NASA • Partnered with NASA GSFC to design and develop the Opto-Mechanical Assembly for the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech • Supporting WFI assembly, integration EUROPA CLIPPER DISCOVERY and test E-THEMIS Instrument Support: Kepler/K2 - Complete Flight System: JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE • Radiation modeling and instrument radiation • Spacecraft and photometer • Designed and built the advanced optical mitigation design • Systems integration and testing technology and lightweight mirror system • Radiation testing of two candidate microbolometer • Supported operations • Designed mirror control electronics detectors and electronics Deep Impact/EPOXI - Complete Flight HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST) NEW FRONTIERS System: • Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph New Horizons – Ralph imager: • Two spacecraft • Visible imager and an infrared spectrometer • Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial • Two imagers Replacement • One imager/spectrometer • Advanced Camera for Surveys • Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph • Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph • Cosmic Origins Spectrograph • Wide Field Camera 3 • Two star trackers MIDEX INVEST • Five major leave-behind equipment SPHEREx (in development): CIRiS: subsystems • Spacecraft • Compact Infrared Radiometer in • Eight custom tools for servicing WISE/NEOWISE: Space instrument COMPTON GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY • Spacecraft • Instrument integration and system • Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer level testing • Flight system integration and testing Experiment EVI-1 • Two fixed-head standard star trackers • Mission operations TEMPO: Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE SMEX Pollution Ultraviolet Spectrometer • Infrared Spectrograph IXPE (in development): • Instrument • Multiband Imaging Photometer • Spacecraft • GEO host under contract • Cryogenic telescope assembly • Instrument Integration and system level testing CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY • Built Aspect Camera and Science Instrument Module.
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