Government & Politics  November 13, 2018

NASA recognizes Ball Aerospace for work on Kepler space telescope

BOULDER — Ball Aerospace recently received a Group Achievement Award from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.

The award recognized the company for creating solutions to allow for the continued use of the Kepler spacecraft for the K2 science mission, according to a company news release.

After Kepler completed its primary mission, the second of four reaction wheels on Kepler ceased to work properly, preventing Kepler from continuing to point with precision. In May 2013, the Ball Aerospace Flight Planning Center (FPC) prevented a potential mission ending failure by devising a way to use…

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A Maryland native, Lucas has worked at news agencies from Wyoming to South Carolina before putting roots down in Colorado.
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