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Atmospheric pollution sensor first Ball contract with South Korea BOULDER, Colo., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the National Institute of Environmental Research in the Ministry of Environment of South Korea. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) GEMS is a...

Planned for 5-Year Mission Life, Satellite Provided Earth Observations for More Than 17 Years BOULDER, Colo., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Earth observation satellite built for the Canadian government has concluded its mission after serving the organization for more than 17 years--12 years longer than its mission life. Radarsat-1 launched in 1995 for an expected 5-year mission. It was Canada's first and oldest Earth monitoring satellite and...

DAYTON, Ohio, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and the Invertix Corporation have entered into a strategic teaming agreement to pursue the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP) II contract with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) NASIC is the nation's premier source of air and space intelligence for Department of...

BOULDER, Colo., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and the Aerospace Corporation will co-host the 2013 Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop (MAIW), April 30-May 1 in Boulder to explore and document best practices and craft a common approach to mission assurance for the U.S. space program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) The workshop at Ball Aerospace is the culmination of nine months of effort by government,...

BOULDER, Colo., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been honored by The Boeing Company as a 2012 "Supplier of the Year" for outstanding avionics work, specifically on the F/A-18 and Harpoon antenna programs. The award was presented during a ceremony in San Diego, CA on April 18. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) Click here to view the Supplier of the Year video:...

BOULDER, Colo., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to perform risk reduction work on the next generation of microwave sounding and imaging instruments for the Weather Satellite Follow-on program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) Under a contract awarded by the Space and Missile Systems Center, El Segundo, California, Ball Aerospace will investigate how to best achieve...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, aerospace leaders from across the nation and around the world will be in Colorado Springs at the 29(th) National Space Symposium to discuss the future of space. With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program and a shrinking national budget, it would be easy to assume that the future of mankind's race to space has come to a standstill. But in reality, private companies are forging ahead to develop programs and...

BOULDER, Colo., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun integration for WorldView-3, the next generation commercial remote-sensing satellite being built for DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130408/LA90009)(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) The third satellite in a series to employ the Ball Commercial Platform (BCP) 5000,...

BOULDER, Colo., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) has completed initial checkout and along with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center built Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) snapped the mission's first multispectral images. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) Link to the satellite's first images taken on March 18, 2013 of the intersection...

ARLINGTON, Va., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has announced new leadership appointments within its Washington Operations office. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130306/LA71887-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130306/LA71887-b) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130306/LA71887-c) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) Vonna Weir Heaton has been selected for the newly created...