DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Critical Design Review for WorldView-3
October 03 2011 - 8:30AM
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DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of
high-resolution earth imagery solutions, and Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. (NYSE: BLL) jointly announced today they
successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for
DigitalGlobe's next generation remote-sensing satellite,
WorldView-3. The successful CDR was completed in late August and
keeps WorldView-3 on schedule for a planned launch in the middle of
2014. WorldView-3 will expand DigitalGlobe's orbiting constellation
to four remote-sensing satellites, all of which were manufactured
by Ball Aerospace.
"As they have so many times in the past, Ball continues to
impress us with their consistent professionalism and highly
effective execution," said Walter Scott, executive vice president
and chief technical officer. "Having built WorldView-2,
WorldView-1, and QuickBird, Ball has amassed an unmatched level of
knowledge and experience. This ultimately results in lower risk and
higher efficiency in the design and manufacture of WorldView-3,
keeping us consistently on-plan and on-schedule for a mid-2014
launch."
The CDR verified design modifications between WorldView-3 and
WorldView-2, previously built by Ball for DigitalGlobe. This
included validation of cost and schedule documentation and
verification of test requirements that will allow Ball Aerospace to
proceed into the final manufacturing, integration and the testing
phase of the program.
"The successful CDR puts us on the path to bus integration in
mid- to late-2012 followed by instrument integration in 2013," said
Cary Ludtke, vice president of Ball's Civil and Operational Space
business unit. "Our mission success with DigitalGlobe is built on
our proven spacecraft bus and schedule performance."
Ball Aerospace is providing the BCP 5000 for WorldView-3 and
will integrate the remote-sensing instrument onto the spacecraft
bus leading to system testing. The BCP 5000's power, stability,
agility, and data storage and transmission capability, together
meet the requirements to deliver comprehensive Earth remote-sensing
information.
The advanced Control Moment Gyroscopes provided for all the
WorldView satellites afford the flexibility and agility to capture
more imagery than ever before. Ball Aerospace previously built the
trio of DigitalGlobe satellites currently on orbit including
WorldView-2 launched in 2009, WorldView-1 launched in 2007, and
QuickBird launched in 2001.
About DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is a
leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery
products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite
constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses
within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and
analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration,
infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation
technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive
ImageLibrary (containing more than one billion square kilometers of
earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and
off-line products and services designed to enable customers to
easily access and integrate our imagery into their business
operations and applications. For more information, visit
www.digitalglobe.com.
About Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp. 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. For more information visit
www.ballaerospace.com.
About Ball Corporation Ball Corporation
(NYSE: BLL) is a supplier of high quality packaging for beverage,
food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other
technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball
Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,500 people
worldwide and reported 2010 sales of more than $7.6 billion. For
the latest Ball news and for other company information, please
visit http://www.ball.com.
DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.
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