Ball Aerospace completes critical design review of methane monitoring satellite's flight system and instrument

Ball Aerospace completes critical design review of methane monitoring satellite's flight system and instrument

BOULDER -- Just six months after preliminary design review, Ball Aerospace announced it successfully completed critical design review (CDR) of the MethaneSAT flight system and advanced spectrometer... Read More

Thursday September 10, 2020 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, MethaneSAT, Makenzie Lystrup, Cassandra Ely

Ball Aerospace-built geostationary air quality instrument launches

Ball Aerospace-built geostationary air quality instrument launches

BOULDER -- The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument, jointly developed by Ball Aerospace and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) under the leadership of Ball... Read More

Wednesday February 19, 2020 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, GEMS

Ball Aerospace begins satellite on-orbit testing of NASA green propellant

Ball Aerospace begins satellite on-orbit testing of NASA green propellant

BOULDER -- Ball Aerospace announced it has officially commissioned NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) and begun on-orbit testing of a non-toxic, high-performance propellant. ... Read More

Monday July 8, 2019 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, Makenzie Lystrup, NASA, green propellant fuel

Ball Aerospace satellite ready for NASA Green Propellant Mission launch

Ball Aerospace satellite ready for NASA Green Propellant Mission launch

BOULDER -- A Ball Aerospace satellite used for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is ready for launch on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the company announced. Ball built... Read More

Monday June 24, 2019 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, NASA, Makenzie Lystrup, Christopher McLean

Ball Aerospace to build spacecraft for NASA’s SPHEREx mission

Ball Aerospace to build spacecraft for NASA’s SPHEREx mission

BOULDER -- NASA has selected Ball Aerospace to build the spacecraft for the Spectro Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), a... Read More

Thursday February 21, 2019 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, NASA, SPHEREX, Makenzie Lystrup

Ball Aerospace delivers pollution monitor to NASA

Ball Aerospace delivers pollution monitor to NASA

BOULDER -- Ball Aerospace said it has delivered the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer to NASA after a successful final acceptance review. Once launched,... Read More

Monday December 10, 2018 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, NASA, Makenzie Lystrup, TEMPO

Ball Aerospace wins U.S. Air Force contract for next-gen weather satellite

Ball Aerospace wins U.S. Air Force contract for next-gen weather satellite

BOULDER -- Ball Aerospace has been selected by the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to deliver the next-generation operational environmental satellite system, Weather... Read More

Thursday November 30, 2017 Tags: Boulder, Ball Aerospace, Rob Strain

Ball Aerospace completes spectrometer testing for NASA’s TEMPO program

Ball Aerospace completes spectrometer testing for NASA’s TEMPO program

BOULDER -- The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, designed and built by Ball Aerospace for NASA, has completed spectrometer testing and verification. ... Read More

Thursday September 21, 2017 Tags: Boulder, NASA, TEMPO, Ball Aerospace, Kelly Chance, Jim Oschmann