Ball Aerospace selected for weather satellite contract
BOULDER — Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to deliver the next-generation operational environmental satellite system.
According to a statement from Ball, the system will be built for the Department of Defense. The contract will provide for system design and risk reduction of a low earth orbit satellite with a passive microwave imaging radiometer. The satellite will also host a government-furnished energetic charged particle sensor.
The systems are intended to improve weather forecasting over maritime regions by taking global measurements of the atmosphere and…
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