Ball Aerospace & Technologies

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation (commonly known as Ball Aerospace ) is an American 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 and larger offices in Broomfield and Westminster (Colorado ), and smaller offices in New Mexico, Ohio, Georgia and Virginia.

Ball Aerospace provides products in the aviation and aerospace engineering and other high-tech solutions were prepared for government and commercial customers.

The German beverage can maker Ball Packaging Europe is one of the subsidiary of Ball Corporation.

History

The Ball Aerospace began in 1956 with the construction of control systems for military rockets and later received a contract to build one of the first NASA probes, the Orbiting Solar Observatory. Over the years the company has been responsible for numerous technological and scientific projects and continued to provide air and space technology at NASA. These included lubricant, optical systems, star sensors and antennas. The company in 2011 was ranked 98 of the largest defense companies worldwide.

Projects

Current projects in which the company is involved include the Satellite Orbital Express, the Kepler space telescope, the Wide -field Infrared Survey Explorer program (WISE ), the satellite WorldView-2 and in the future James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ).

In the past, components for QuickBird, WorldView-1, delivered the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, AEROS, CALIPSO, CloudSat, Deep Impact, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the aircraft Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF).