Ball Aerospace & Technologies
| Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat |
 Boulder , Colorado
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| management | Robert D. Strain (President) |
| Branch | Aerospace |
| Website | www.ball.com/aerospace |
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies (commonly known as Ball Aerospace referred to) is a US manufacturer of spacecraft and civilian, commercial and military aerospace components and instruments for national defense. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), headquartered in Boulder, (Colorado) and larger offices in Broomfield and Westminster ( Colorado ) and smaller offices in New Mexico , Ohio , Georgia and Virginia .
Ball Aerospace manufactures aerospace products and other high-tech solutions for government and commercial customers.
history
Ball Aerospace began building control systems for military missiles in 1956 and was later awarded a contract to build one of NASA's first probes, the Orbiting Solar Observatory . Over the years the company has been responsible for numerous technology and science projects, and has continued to supply aerospace technology to NASA. These included lubricants, optical systems, star sensors and antennas.
In 2005 the asteroid (4808) Ballaero was named after the company.
In 2011, the company was number 98 among the largest armaments companies worldwide.
Projects
Current projects in which the company is involved include the Orbital Express satellite , the Kepler space telescope , the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer program (WISE), the WorldView-2 satellite and, in the future, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) .
Ball Aerospace is involved in the space mission of the New Horizons space probe . On July 13, 2015, the Ralph camera system delivered the first close-ups of the dwarf planet Pluto .
In the past components have been supplied for QuickBird , WorldView-1 , the Spitzer Space Telescope , the Hubble Space Telescope , AEROS , CALIPSO , CloudSat , Deep Impact , the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leadership , accessed February 1, 2017
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 53469
- ↑ Defense News Top 100 for 2011. (No longer available online.) Defense News, June 18, 2012, archived from the original on January 2, 2013 ; accessed on September 4, 2012 .
- ↑ Orbital Express (English)
- ↑ Kepler Space Observatory (English)
- ↑ SpaceFlighNow: DigitalGlobe announces Ball building WorldView 2 satellite (English)
- ^ Ball Corp .: Ball Aerospace Congratulates the New Horizons Mission Team. July 14, 2015, accessed July 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Ball Aerospace Imaging Instrument Reveals Complex Differences Between Pluto And Charon. Colorado Space News, July 14, 2015, accessed July 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Yenne, Bill: The Encyclopedia of US Spacecraft . Exeter Books (A Bison Book), New York, 1985, ISBN 0-671-07580-2 . , p.12 AEROS