Ball Aerospace Will Build Operational Land Imager for Landsat Data Continuity Mission
July 16 2007 - 7:10PM
PR Newswire (US)
BOULDER, Colo., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. has been awarded a NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center contract to build the Operational Land Imager (OLI)
for the eighth Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). "We take
great pride in being chosen to help continue NASA's longest
continuous imagery data record of our planet," said David L.
Taylor, president and CEO of Ball Aerospace. "From Radarsat to
QuikSCAT, and from QuickBird to its soon to be launched successor,
WorldView, Ball Aerospace has a strong legacy in both Earth science
and remote-sensing missions." The OLI instrument provides 15-meter
(490ft.) panchromatic and 30m multi-spectral Earth-imaging
spatial-resolution capability. OLI includes a 185km swath allowing
the entire globe to be imaged every 16 days. OLI instrument
delivery is slated for Sept. 2010, with launch anticipated in 2011.
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite
missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS). For more than 30-years, Landsat satellites have
continuously and consistently archived images of Earth, creating a
historical archive unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and
length. The multispectral imagery is gathered for applications that
include agricultural monitoring, natural resource management and
land-use planning. Ball Aerospace is also competing for the Landsat
spacecraft bus. The Goddard Rapid Space Development Office Landsat
Spacecraft Accommodation study currently underway will result in a
Ball Aerospace design that will accommodate the mission-specific
requirements of the follow-on Landsat mission. Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. supports critical missions of important national
agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other
U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and
manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors,
components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for
strategic, tactical and scientific applications. Over the past 50
years, Ball Aerospace has been responsible for numerous
technological and scientific 'firsts' and acts as a technology
innovator for the aerospace market. Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL) is
a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging products for
beverage, food and household customers, and of aerospace and other
technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball
Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 15,500 people
worldwide and reported 2006 sales of $6.6 billion. Forward-Looking
Statements This release contains "forward-looking" statements
concerning future events and financial performance. Words such as
"expects," "anticipates," "estimates" and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements
are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. The
company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward- looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. Key risks and
uncertainties are summarized in filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99.2 in our Form 10-K, which
are available at our Web site and at http://www.sec.gov/. Factors
that might affect our packaging segments include fluctuation in
consumer and customer demand and preferences; availability and cost
of raw materials, including recent significant increases in resin,
steel, aluminum and energy costs, and the ability to pass such
increases on to customers; competitive packaging availability,
pricing and substitution; changes in climate and weather; crop
yields; industry productive capacity and competitive activity;
failure to achieve anticipated productivity improvements or
production cost reductions, including those associated with our
beverage can end project; the German mandatory deposit or other
restrictive packaging laws; changes in major customer or supplier
contracts or loss of a major customer or supplier; and changes in
foreign exchange rates, tax rates and activities of foreign
subsidiaries. Factors that might affect our aerospace segment
include: funding, authorization, availability and returns of
government and commercial contracts; and delays, extensions and
technical uncertainties affecting segment contracts. Factors that
might affect the company as a whole include those listed plus:
accounting changes; successful or unsuccessful acquisitions, joint
ventures or divestitures; integration of recently acquired
businesses; regulatory action or laws including tax, environmental
and workplace safety; governmental investigations; technological
developments and innovations; goodwill impairment; antitrust,
patent and other litigation; strikes; labor cost changes; rates of
return projected and earned on assets of the company's defined
benefit retirement plans; pension changes; reduced cash flow;
interest rates affecting our debt; and changes to unaudited results
due to statutory audits or other effects. DATASOURCE: Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp. CONTACT: Roz Brown of Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp., +1-303-533-6059, Web site:
http://www.ballaerospace.com/
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