NASA has tasked Ball Aerospace to study two architecture concepts designed to modernize instruments of Earth imagery satellites. The company said Monday it will assess how constellation and single satellite concepts can accommodate new spectral bands and orbit parameters as well as enhanced spatial resolution for the Landsat Next program.  Ball will seek to determine […] More

Ball Aerospace has been selected to conduct three research projects to explore sustainable land imaging platforms that could support Earth observation satellite operations under a joint NASA-U.S. Geological Survey program.

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Ball Aerospace has sent two small land imaging instruments to orbit for final flights as part of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat program.

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Canada-based Magellan Aerospace has delivered the first power control unit under a contract in support of a future international space operation. The delivery follows the company’s selection by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to provide three PCUs that will be used for control and data handling units, Magellan Aerospace said […] More

Materion has received a contract to supply AlBeMet metal matrix composite parts that will be used as components for UTC Aerospace Systems‘ MS-177 multi-spectral imaging sensor. The MS-177 is being evaluated for use on Northrop Grumman‘s RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, Materion said Thursday. Made of aluminum and beryllium, AlBeMet is a composite metal made to have high modulus and low-density qualities, […] More

BAE Systems has selected Magellan Aerospace to supply horizontal tail assemblies for the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft under a two-year, $52 million contract. Magellan said Thursday it aims to manufacture more than 1,000 ship sets of horizontal tail assemblies over the fighter program’s life cycle. “Magellan will be producing approximately half of the CTOL horizontal tails […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies will manufacture the second Operational Land Imager instrument for NASA‘s Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite under a potential six-year, $19.3 million sole-source letter contract. The company said Thursday it will build Operational Land Imager-2, which works to generate satellite imagery that will support studies on the impact of natural and man-induced activities on Earth’s surface. […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has wrapped up integration work on DigitalGlobe‘s commercial satellite that is built to collect high-resolution images of the Earth. The WorldView-3 will be the fourth satellite in DigitalGlobe’s remote-sensing constellation and is scheduled for launch this summer at Vanderberg Air Force Base, Calif., Ball Aerospace said Monday. Cary Ludtke, Ball Aerospace […] More

NASA has chosen Ball Aerospace to initiate the first phase of a mission aimed at expanding the scientific community’s knowledge about the sun's middle coronal structure. Under the contract, the company said Monday it will conduct a conceptual study for the space agency's proposed Extreme ultraviolet Coronal Mass Ejection and Coronal Connectivity Observatory mission.

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Verizon has incorporated C-Band coverage and deployed redundant Wi-Fi and other connectivity platforms and services to support North American Aerospace Defense Command’s initiative of helping children track the whereabouts of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve via a toll-free hotline. Verizon said Tuesday it will provide 5G connectivity service to the command's commercial network and supply equipment, including Wi-Fi jetpacks, Cradlepoint routers and Verizon Frontline mobile assets, to enable volunteers to quickly respond to children’s calls as part of the NORAD Tracks Santa initiative.

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Albers Aerospace’s mission is to provide superior goods and services to the public and private sectors while contributing constructively. Leaders, founders, and executives at the company draw on years of military experience to benefit clients and employees.   Albers Aerospace Leaders, Founders, Execs: Who are they?   Read on and get to know Albers Aerospace’s […] More

Ball Aerospace and NASA’s team at Goddard Space Flight Center have assembled the primary camera system for the space agency’s next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. The Wide Field Instrument is constructed to be capable of providing a field of view over 100 times larger than Roman’s Hubble Space telescope predecessor while retaining the same resolution, […] More