Ball Aerospace NPP Satellite Ready for Launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base
October 26 2011 - 1:15PM
Business Wire
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. NPP satellite is
encapsulated inside the fairing (nose cone) of a United Launch
Alliance Delta II launch vehicle in preparation for liftoff from
Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base Space, October
28, 2011, at 2:48 a.m. PDT (5:48 a.m. EDT).
NPP installed on the Delta II rocket.
(Photo: Business Wire)
NPP is NASA’s first Earth-observing satellite to measure both
global climate changes and a host of key weather variables. Ball
Aerospace built the NPP satellite BCP 2000 satellite bus for
Goddard Space Flight Center under fixed-price terms. Ball also
built one of five instruments for NPP - the Ozone Mapping and
Profiler Suite (OMPS).
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.
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.
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