NASA Recognizes Ball Aerospace's Pieper for CloudSat Mission
June 16 2008 - 8:05AM
PR Newswire (US)
BOULDER, Colo., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. Engineer Brian Pieper has been awarded
NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal for his work on the 2001
CloudSat Mission. (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080616/LAM503) NASA's most
prestigious honor awards are presented to a number of carefully
selected individuals and groups, both government and
non-government, who have made outstanding contributions to a NASA
mission. Pieper, Ball's technical manager for the CloudSat mission,
was honored for his "outstanding technical achievement in
delivering the spacecraft bus and preparing the spacecraft for
launch and early orbit operations to allow another NASA vision/goal
to become a reality." Pieper has continued to support the mission
since launch by tracking on-orbit data. "It was a privilege to work
on the CloudSat mission and I am honored to receive this
prestigious NASA award," said Pieper. "CloudSat continues to return
amazing data in advancing our understanding of climate and climate
change, and emphasizes the importance of teamwork in solving
critical issues." CloudSat is part of a multi-satellite,
multi-sensor NASA experiment designed to reveal the inner secrets
of clouds and improve weather forecasts and climate predictions.
Ball Aerospace built the CloudSat spacecraft under contract to
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as part of NASA's Earth
System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) program. Pieper will receive the
awarded during a ceremony at JPL on Wednesday, July 23. 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 now 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 2007 sales of $7.4 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 product 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; competitive activity;
failure to achieve anticipated productivity improvements or
production cost reductions, including our beverage can end project;
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; changes in senior management;
successful or unsuccessful acquisitions, joint ventures or
divestitures; integration of recently acquired businesses;
regulatory action or laws including tax, environmental, health and
workplace safety, including in respect of chemicals or substances
used in raw materials or in the manufacturing process; 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
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Technologies Corp. CONTACT: Roz Brown of Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp., +1-303-533-6059, Web site:
http://www.ballaerospace.com/
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