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Ball Aerospace-Built Radarsat-1 Far Outlives Mission Expectations

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BOULDER, Colo., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Earth observation satellite built for the Canadian government has concluded its mission after serving the organization for more than 17 years12 years longer than its mission life. Continue reading →

Ball Aerospace and Invertix Team on ATEP II Contract for NASIC

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DAYTON, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Invertix Corporation have entered into a strategic teaming agreement to pursue the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP) II contract with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. NASIC is the nations premier source of air and space intelligence for DoD and national intelligence consumers and is a recognized center of excellence for GEOINT and MASINT reporting. Continue reading →

Ball Aerospace Hosts Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop

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BOULDER, Colo., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and the Aerospace Corporation will co-host the 2013 Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop (MAIW), April 30-May 1 in Boulder to explore and document best practices and craft a common approach to mission assurance for the U.S. Continue reading →

Ball Aerospace Receives Supplier of the Year Award from Boeing

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BOULDER, Colo., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been honored by The Boeing Company as a 2012 “Supplier of the Year” for outstanding avionics work, specifically on the F/A-18 and Harpoon antenna programs. The award was presented during a ceremony in San Diego, CA on April 18 Continue reading →

Ball Aerospace Begins Integration Phase for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 Satellite

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BOULDER, Colo., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun integration for WorldView-3, the next generation commercial remote-sensing satellite being built for DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130408/LA90009) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/LA39163LOGO) The third satellite in a series to employ the Ball Commercial Platform (BCP) 5000, WorldView-3 is slated for launch in mid-2014. Continue reading →

GE Video Processing Technology Used by NASA to Study Hurricanes and Wildfires

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– GE Intelligent Platforms (GE) today announced that the companys video processing technology had been deployed on board NASAs Global Hawk as part of the agencys Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Mission. The Global Hawk aircraft is unique in its research capabilities because of its long range and flight duration, providing extraordinary capabilities for scientific and commercial ventures. The rugged full motion video (FMV) compression appliance, the GE daq8580, provides visual situational awareness on the missions, which study hurricanes and wildfires. Continue reading →

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility to Use Earth Networks’ Total Lightning Data and Weather …

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GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug and operator of the largest weather, lightning detection and climate observation networks, announces it will be delivering lightning data from its total lightning detection network to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF). Continue reading →

Ball Aerospace Completes Final Phase of $75M Manufacturing Expansion

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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. opened the door today on a new era of space programs by celebrating the completion of an advanced satellite manufacturing center that more than doubles current spacecraft production capability. Continue reading →

NASA climate data indicates that the long-term global warming trend is continuing

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New measurements by NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years. One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from normal, or a baseline. For the following map, NASA picked a baseline period using temperatures between 1951 and 1980, and compared temperature global temperature readings from 2012 Continue reading →

Ball Aerospace Celebrates Hubble Space Telescope 2012 Science Achievements

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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) delivered unprecedented science in 2012 including the discovery of the oldest galaxy to date. Continue reading →

Prophetic signs of the end of the world: signs in the sun (part 7) – Video

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Prophetic signs of the end of the world: signs in the sun (part 7) Credits to Suspicious0bservers. Our World is Changing: Looking Beyond'the 2012' Related videos: Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Part 4: www.youtube.com Part 5: www.youtube.com Part 6: www.youtube.com Sources: Information courtesy of NASA, NOAA, the US Library, the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Lab, the Environmental Visualization Laboratory, the NASA Earth Observatory, SDO, SOHO, Stereo, ISWA, SSEC, HAARP, and SolarIMG – Your information, images, and videos were essential to this video Continue reading →

West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year’s monstrous tsunami off Japan’s coast. Armed with index-size cards, beachcombers will log water bottles, buoys, fishing gear and other possessions that might have sailed across the Pacific to the 1,100-mile shoreline Continue reading →