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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully integrated the fifth and final payload to fly aboard the STPSat-3 spacecraft when it launches from Wallops Island, Virginia, in mid-2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130118/LA44616) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) The Joint Component Research (J-CORE) instrument is a space electronics component payload sponsored by the Air Force...
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully integrated four of the five payloads and a spacecraft de-orbit module onto STPSat-3, the Department of Defense Space Test Program's Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) slated to launch August 1, 2013. Integration of the four instruments and the MMA Design LLC De-Orbit Module was completed in 18 days. STPSat-3 is a common spacecraft, standard payload interface series of satellites...
NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the U.S. Air Force signed an agreement this week to establish clear criteria for certification of commercial providers of launch vehicles used for national security space and civil space missions. The U.S. government is committed to procuring commercial launch services for its satellite and robotic missions, including Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, or EELV, launches. The new entrant launch vehicle certification strategy is the latest...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the U.S. Air Force signed an agreement this week to establish clear criteria for certification of commercial providers of launch vehicles used for national security space and civil space missions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The U.S. government is committed to procuring commercial launch services for its satellite and robotic missions, including Evolved...
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced that the satellite command and control system - the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture- recently went operational with the successful launch of the multi-payload experimental Space Test Program STP-S26 mission, STPSat-2. The architecture was developed by Lockheed Martin and the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center Space Development and Test Directorate. In...
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The STPSat-2 satellite, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the U.S. Air Force STP-S26 launch, lifted off successfully from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, at 4:25 p.m. local time (6:25 MST) on board a Minotaur IV rocket. STPSat-2 is the first spacecraft for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program managed by the Space Development and Test Directorate at Kirtland Air...
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Space Development and Test Wing of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is scheduled to launch aboard a Minotaur IV rocket as part of the STP-S26 mission from Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex on November 19. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101117/LA03309) (Photo:...
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has shipped the STPSat-2 satellite built for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) to Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex for scheduled liftoff aboard a Minotaur 4 rocket for a fall 2010 launch. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100802/LA43922) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100802/LA43922) STPSat-2 is the first spacecraft for...
NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.The pre-shipment review was completed in May, demonstrating the flight hardware has successfully passed all environmental and performance tests and is authorized for shipment to the launch site for final integration on the Minotaur IV launch vehicle,...
The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here on Earth. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI, these instruments recently passed a series of important final tests to prove their readiness for spaceflight.These instruments were conceived and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and were integrated to the satellite and tested...
