 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL), with primary offices and facilities in Boulder, Broomfield and Westminster in Colorado, with smaller offices in New Mexico, Ohio and northern Virginia. Image File history File links Batc_frame_hor. ...
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The City and County of Broomfield lies in the northern tier of the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area in Colorado. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area Ranked 8th - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ...
Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area Ranked 5th - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²) - Width 342 miles (550 km) - Length 370 miles (595 km) - % water 0. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area Ranked 34th - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²) - Width 220 miles (355 km) - Length 220 miles (355 km) - % water 8. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area Ranked 35th - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²) - Width 200 miles (320 km) - Length 430 miles (690 km) - % water 7. ...
Ball Aerospace designs and manufactures spacecraft, components and instruments for national defense, civil space and commercial space applications. The company began building pointing controls for military rockets in 1956, and later won a contract to build one of NASA’s first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory. Over the years, the company has been responsible for numerous technological and scientific ‘firsts’ and now acts as a technology innovator for important national missions. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Ball Aerospace also has many other products and services for the aerospace industry, including lubricants, optical systems, star trackers and antennas. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ball Corp., Ball Aerospace was cited in 2005 as the 99th largest defense contractor in the world.[1] Ball Corp. celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2005, and Ball Aerospace is celebrating its 50th anniversary during 2006. Both parent and subsidiary headquarters are co-located in Broomfield, Colorado. In the context of spacecraft, attitude control is control of the angular position and rotation of the spacecraft, either relative to the object that it is orbiting, or relative to the celestial sphere. ...
Ball Aerospace Projects
Ball Aerospace has been involved in the design and manufacture of many notable programs including: - The instrumentation for the Spitzer Space Telescope. Ball Aerospace developed the Cryogenic Telescope Assembly (CTA) and two of the three science instruments: the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS).
- Instrument packages for the Hubble Telescope, including the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), all which will be installed on the observatory during the Space Shuttle servicing mission scheduled for 2008. When the servicing mission is complete, all of Hubble's scientific instruments will be of Ball Aerospace manufacture.
- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. Ball Aerospace designed and built the spacecraft and all of its instrument packages.
- CALIPSO
- CloudSat
- Star trackers for NASA's Space Shuttle program
- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) HiRISE camera
- Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) conformal antennas
- High-Gain Antenna Gimbal (HGAG) and the Panoramic-camera Mast Assembly (PMA)for the Mars Exploration Rover
Some of Ball Aerospace's current projects include: The Spitzer Space Telescope Facility launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, Aug. ...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope orbiting the Earth at the outer edges of the atmosphere. ...
NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ...
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Illustration of the Deep Impact space probe after impactor separation (artists conception) Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1. ...
CALIPSO CALIPSO is a NASA environmental satellite which is scheduled for launch atop a Delta II rocket on April 25, 2006. ...
CloudSat - artist concept CloudSat is a NASA environmental satellite, which is scheduled for launch on a Delta II rocket on April 25 2006. ...
NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ...
NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. ...
The F-35 Lightning II — previously known as the X-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) during its development — is a single-seat, single-engined military strike fighter, a multi-role aircraft that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and air-to-air combat. ...
Artists Concept of Rover on Mars (credit: Maas Digital LLC) NASAs 2003 Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission is an ongoing unmanned Mars exploration mission, commenced in 2003, that sent two robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity to explore the Martian surface and geology. ...
- The Kepler Space Observatory satellite to search for habitable planets
- The James Webb Space Telescope to study the formation of the earliest stars in the universe.
- The WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer) Program, which, over a 7 month mission in a polar orbit will map the entire sky i multiple mid-far infrared wavelengths. This crucial mission may find close and cool objects to our sun never before detected. It will also act as a predecessor to the JWST Program.
Conceptual drawing of the Kepler Space Observatory Kepler is a space observatory planned by NASA that will search for extrasolar planets. ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned orbital infrared observatory, intended (in part) to replace the aging Hubble Space Telescope. ...
See also An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ...
Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. ...
MILSTAR:A communication satellite A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ...
A spacecraft is a vehicle, vessel, craft or device designed to operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space. ...
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References - ^ Defense News Top 100. Defense News Research (2005). Retrieved on 2006-07-29.
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