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NEWS: Two remarkable legacies are uniting. Ball Aerospace is now part of BAE Systems, Inc., forming a new sector under its U.S. business known as Space & Mission Systems.
Follow
@BAESystemsInc
to keep up with our work.
Learn more:
Trusted. Innovative. Bold. Together.
Today we’re launching a new sector: Space & Mission Systems, bringing onboard 5,200 talented and experienced new team members, and also a new slate of capabilities to meet our customers’ mission-critical needs.
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Congratulations to the entire
#IXPE
team! We can’t wait to uncover new science. ✨
@NASA_Marshall
@NASA
@SpaceX
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Three successful launches! 🚀🚀🚀Thanks to
@ulalaunch
and their intern-built sport rockets for the ride!
#BIRST2021
#StudentsRockIt
#Ballinterns
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Sine-d, sealed, delivered! The first rocket named “Sine” took flight! 🚀
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Color in the Kuiper Belt! 🎨
These images are among the first released from
@NASANewHorizons
' historic Kuiper Belt flyby. Many more spectacular shots to come! 📸
More from
@JHUAPL
:
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
#NewHorizons
#UltimaFlyby
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Spacecraft separation and solar array deployment are CONFIRMED.
#JPSS1
is power-positive and on its own in orbit!
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One of our optical engineers took this
@NASAWebb
photo to verify line of sight for testing purposes. Worth a late share for
#SelfieDay
!
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#NewHorizons
is one accomplished spacecraft! 🛰️
🚀 Fastest spacecraft ever launched
📸 1st mission to explore
#Pluto
system
🎯 1st flyby of object discovered after mission launched
#MU69
🥇 Record holder for most distant exploration of worlds
...and more!
#NationalComplimentDay
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Mission update ✖️3⃣!
Tower stowed ✅
Lens cap removed ✅
Sunshield pallets stowed ✅
3 more testing milestones have been completed for
#NASAWebb
! The world’s most complex & powerful space telescope is making big progress for its launch & million-mile journey later this year.
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🚨 BIRST ALERT! 🚨
Rocket launch day is here! 🚀
Follow here for more updates and give a ❤️ to show support for our interns!
#BIRST2023
#StudentsRockIt
@ulalaunch
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The launch webcast is live! See
@NASA
’s
#IXPE
head to space! ⤵️
Are you watching along with us? 👍🏽
#IXPElaunch
LIVE NOW: Our Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (
#IXPE
) is about to lift off on a
@SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket from
@NASAKennedy
!
We're targeting 1am EST (06:00 UTC) for launch:
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Excited for the launch of
@NASA_Technology
's Green Propellant Infusion Mission? Check out these educational materials for students of all ages!
✂️ Paper Model:
🎨 Coloring Page:
#STP2
#GPIM
#STEM
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Forever our favorite selfie!
#NationalSelfieDay
📸 Ball engineer Larkin Carey is reflected in
@NASAWebb
's secondary mirror during a test of the observatory's optics:
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@NASA
’s IXPE is on its way to space, but the launch broadcast continues. Ball Aerospace’s Sarah Lipscy is speaking on Ball’s role on the mission and the exciting science it will uncover!
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Thank you,
@NASANewHorizons
for honoring Lisa's extraordinary scientific contributions. Her memory lives on at Ball.
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It's
#NationalSelfieDay
! Our all-time favorite selfie stars ✨
@NASAWebb
and marked an important testing milestone for NASA's next great observatory.
#JWST
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❤️ this throwback! Ball Aerospace designed and built the advanced optical technology and lightweight mirror system that will enable
@NASAWebb
to look 13.5 billion years back in time! ✨
#JWST
#ThrowbackThursday
More on our role:
Here's a
#ThrowbackThursday
to when
#NASAWebb
's flight mirrors were undergoing cryogenic testing
@NASA_Marshall
!
Testing took place in a huge, helium-cooled vacuum chamber, which took Webb's mirrors from room temperature all the way down to -379 degree F, or -228 degrees C! 🥶
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The
@NASANewHorizons
mission team honored Lisa Hardaway's life and contributions last year by dedicating the spectrometer she helped to develop—which brought the first color close-up images of
#Pluto
to the world—in her memory. More from
@CUEngineering
:
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That's a solid packing job right there! 🎒
Ball Aerospace proudly designed and built the advanced optical technology and lightweight mirror system for
@NASAWebb
!
Learn more:
A million mile trip into space requires careful packing. 🧳
Engineers have successfully folded and packed
#NASAWebb
's sunshield — a heat protector the size of a tennis court. Read more about Webb's latest update at
@northropgrumman
:
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In just three days, this small/powerful camera 📸 will take high resolution images of icy ❄️
#UltimaThule
(~4 billion miles from Earth! 🌏).
Learn more about Ralph:
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The boom is deployed! 🥳
@NASA
's
#IXPE
unfolded its origami boom and new science is just around the corner.
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JPSS-1 is a collaboration between
@NASA
,
@NOAA
,
@BallAerospace
,
@HarrisCorp
,
@Raytheon
and
@NorthropGrumman
with launch provided by
@ulalaunch
. Shout out to the whole team!
#JPSS1
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Pre-launch for the
#BIRST2022
rocket launches! Three 19.6 ft. tall sport rockets built by
@ulalaunch
interns will take flight, each carrying a
#Ballintern
payload.
#StudentsRockit
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Relive the launch of
#Landsat
8, which lifted off six years ago on February 11, 2013! 📽
Our role:
📸:
@NASA
/
@ulalaunch
/
@BallAerospace
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#DYK
: 85% of our weather data comes from polar-orbiting satellites like
@NASANPP
?
#JPSS1
will launch later this year.
#NASASocial
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Thanks for the visit! Acting Admin. Lightfoot heard from Ball's OLI-2 program manager, Leanne Presley. OLI-2 will fly aboard
@NASA_Landsat
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Acting NASA Admin Lightfoot sees space missions come together with
@LockheedMartin
,
@SierraNevCorp
&
@BallAerospace
:
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As if we could get any more excited for the
#MU69
flyby later this year... The
@NewHorizons2015
#PlutoFlyby
keeps paying science dividends!
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The
@HiRISE
camera is the largest telescopic instrument ever sent beyond Earth’s orbit. It is powerful enough to identify objects as small as a coffee table from its vantage point above the Red Planet.
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It's the final countdown! 🚀 5️ days out! 📅
#BallInterns
' payloads will fly on
@ulalaunch
intern-built rockets this Saturday.
#BIRST2023
#StudentsRockIt
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Secondary mirror deployed! ☑
CONFIRMED: “The world’s most sophisticated tripod” has not only deployed but also latched!
Each of the struts for this tripod, which helps
#NASAWebb
’s secondary mirror direct light into the instruments, is about 25 feet long (7.6 m)!
#UnfoldTheUniverse
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In 75 days,
@NASANewHorizons
will make the farthest encounter of a planetary object in history! Learn more about this journey of exploration to
#Pluto
,
#Ultima
Thule and beyond:
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IXPE has arrived! 🛰️
@NASA
's IXPE is now at Kennedy Space Center in FL. We provided the spacecraft, some elements of the payload, observatory assembly, and integration and test. Mark your calendars for a Dec. 9 scheduled launch! 📅
📰:
Right image: NASA
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Here's
#JPSS1
leaving
@BallAerospace
in Boulder, CO. This morning, in about 30 minutes, the spacecraft will launch into polar orbit!
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Another step toward the completion of
#NASA
’s next flagship astrophysics observatory with completion of the Focal Plane System integration for the Roman Space Telescope! Learn more about
@NASARoman
and our role in the latest Ball Aerospace blog. 👇
📰:
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It's
#NationalCameraDay
, so we would be remiss if we didn't mention one of our favorites: Ralph!
@NASANewHorizons
#PlutoFlyby
#Ultima
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Thanks to
@ulalaunch
and their intern-built sport rockets for the ride! 🚀
#BIRST2023
#Ballinterns
#StudentsRockIt
That’s a wrap for 2023 Student Rocket Launch! Congratulations on a 100% launch success! A special thanks to
@Ballaerospace
, the K-12 teams and our ULA interns and mentors.
We are proud of our interns and the skills they have developed along the way
#StudentsRockIt
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Cat's Eye Nebula by
@NASAHubble
or Cat's Paw Nebula by
@NASAspitzer
, do you have a favorite?
#NationalCatDay
😺
#Spitzer
:
#Hubble
:
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Ball Aerospace's Katie Melbourne is involved in commissioning for
@nasawebb
,
#NASA
's new flagship space telescope. We're incredibly proud of her work on
#Webb
!
Check out
@cuboulder
's feature on her work, education and balancing it all:
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It's been 25 years since the first
@NASAHubble
servicing mission! ✨
Look back on the historic mission with
@NASA
:
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If you’re heading out to the rocket launch site tomorrow, make sure to check out the custom Snapchat filter and Instagram GIPHY created by
@ulalaunch
.🚀 Search “StudentsRockIt” on Instagram and make sure to tag Ball Aerospace and ULA in your stories!🤳
#BIRST2021
#StudentsRockIt
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Spacecraft propellant is going green!
@NASA_Technology
’s
#GPIM
spacecraft will demonstrate a new high-performance, non-toxic spacecraft propellant on-orbit.
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Celebrate
@NASANewHorizons
' launch anniversary (1/19/2006) by downloading your own "Pluto in Pictures" poster!
#PlutoFlyby
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Using
@NASANewHorizons
data, scientists found the jagged landscape around Pluto's equator is made of frozen methane.
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Add this one to the books! 📚
@NASA
’s
#IXPE
successfully launched to space from
@NASAKennedy
. Ball Aerospace provided the IXPE spacecraft, mechanical and structural elements of the payload, observatory assembly, and integration and test.
📰:
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#JPSS1
will take 2x daily measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, oceans & land surface from every point of the globe.
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The
@EnvDefenseFund
's upcoming
@MethaneSAT
mission will provide data that will help to reduce methane emissions, fostering a more
#sustainable
world. Ball Aerospace is developing the advanced spectrometer instrument at the heart of
MethaneSAT.
#WEF23
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Spacecraft propellant is going green!
@NASA_Technology
’s
#GPIM
spacecraft will demonstrate a new high-performance, non-toxic spacecraft propulsion fuel on-orbit.
#SmallSat18
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Get excited! The
@NASANewHorizons
flyby of MU69 will be 3X closer to the KBO than the spacecraft’s
#PlutoFlyBy
!
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The
@NASANewHorizons
mission is shedding light on some of the most distant bodies in our solar system.
#SpaceExplorationDay
#PlutoFlyby
#Ultima
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Save the date and remember the name!
@NASANewHorizons
’ next flyby target has a new nickname: Ultima Thule.
#NewHorizons
will explore
#Ultima
on January 1, 2019.
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Spacecraft propellant is going green! 🛰💚
@NASA_Technology
’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission will demonstrate a new high-performance, non-toxic spacecraft propellant on orbit.
Our role:
More, from NASA:
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Happy anniversary,
@NASANewHorizons
! The pioneering probe launched
#OTD
in 2006! Next stop:
#KBO
2014 MU69!
#PlutoFlyby
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2 days to go before launch! 🚀 There will be two
#Ballintern
BIRST payloads flying on this year’s
@ulalaunch
intern-built rockets.
#BIRST2023
#StudentsRockIt
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Check out this
@NASARoman
update! 👇
What's eight times taller than Mount Everest? Roman's harness (if it were laid out end-to-end) of course!
Just like the human nervous system, all this wiring will help different parts of the observatory communicate – and now it's ready for integration ✅
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BIRST ALERT! 🚀 The Ball Intern Remote Sensing Team (BIRST) is back in action.
#Ballinterns
are building payloads that will take flight on
@ulalaunch
intern-built rockets and then a high-altitude balloon provided by Edge of Space Sciences.
#BIRST2022
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Ready for launch! The
#JPSS1
spacecraft is encapsulated inside the fairing of its
@ulalaunch
#DeltaII
and ready for lift off from Vandenberg AFB on Nov. 14!
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Launched on August 12, 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its Ball-built
@HiRISE
camera have revealed the Red Planet in unprecedented resolution.
Learn more:
📸: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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Congratulations to the entire
#TEMPO
team! We can’t wait for the Ball-built instrument to start delivering data to better monitor
#pollution
impacting our planet.🌎
📰:
@TEMPO_Mission
@NASA
@CenterForAstro
@KellyChance1
@Maxar
@Intelsat
@SpaceX
📷: SpaceX
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Fewer than 25 days until Ralph flies by Ultima Thule with
@NASANewHorizons
!
Small and powerful, Ralph 📸 weighs just 23lbs and uses only ~7 watts, the power of a standard night light. 💡
#Ultima
#NewHorizons
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Agreed! Shout out to our Ball Aerospace mentors who built a 'black box' data recorder that will fly in the
@ulalaunch
intern-built rocket!
ULA's Future Heavy towers at 53 feet tall, but we think the volunteer interns, mentors and payload teams stand even taller.
#StudentsRockIt
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Congratulations to the New Horizons Ralph instrument team for winning the George W. Goddard award from
@SPIEtweets
!
#PlutoFlyby
#GoBeyond
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#JPSS1
, built by
@BallAerospace
, will increase the accuracy and timeliness of weather forecasts.
#NASASocial
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ICYMI: The “Lisa Hardaway Infrared Spectrometer” will fly on
@NASANewHorizons
as it journeys into interstellar space
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3 days until launch day! 🚀 On Saturday we’ll be in Pueblo, CO seeing the
#BIRSTintern
payloads take flight.
#BIRST2023
#StudentsRockIt
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#NOAA20
(formerly
#JPSS1
) is our nation’s most advanced polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellite.
@NOAASatellites
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Just in time for the official start of
#HurricaneSeason
,
@NOAASatellites
has declared
#NOAA20
fully operational!
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Experience the
#PlutoFlyby
in 24 seconds! Images from
@NewHorizons2015
instruments like the Ball-built Ralph camera.
http://t.co/k10DbNAvQu
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.
@NASARoman
has a ride to space! 🚀
Ball Aerospace is developing the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) Opto-Mechanical Assembly for Roman. More on our role:
Get in, Roman; we are going to L2!
@NASA
has announced that the Roman Space Telescope will launch on the
@SpaceX
Falcon Heavy rocket from
@NASAKennedy
. 🚀
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Have you heard of BIRB?
It's not just a fun acronym.🖤 The Ball InfraRed Black (BIRB) paint made by
@BallAerospace
is vital to regulating
#Webb
's temperature. 🌡 See how it works! 👇🏼
No pets are onboard the Webb Telescope, but we do have BIRB 🐦
BIRB, made by
@BallAerospace
, stands for Ball InfraRed Black. It’s a super dark paint on our radiator that helps keep our science instruments cool! Find our how in our latest “Elements of Webb” episode 👇
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25 years and it still gives us discoveries like this.
#Hubble25
@NASA_Hubble
Two black holes whirl around each other & power a quasar located 600 million light-years away:
http://t.co/GLEhRxyayL
http://t.co/AlKbVnhM7Y
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Ball Aerospace built
@NASANewHorizons
’
#Ralph
instrument with
@SwRI
and
@NASAGoddard
. Ralph returned the first ever high-res color images of Pluto and will investigate
#Ultima
later this year!
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We're proud to host/hire amazing 'Brookies' like Katie!
The
@owensfellowship
offers paid internships & executive mentorship for exceptional undergrad women & gender-minority students in aerospace. Applications are open now!
#BecomeABrookie
We all love a good
#BrookeOwensFellow
success story! Katie Melbourne just accepted a full time position with host company Ball Aerospace!
Katie will be Associate Systems Engineer in Boulder, CO! Congrats Katie! 🥳🤩👩🚀🚀
#BOF
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This is for sure one of our favorite selfies! 🤳
@NASAWebb
and Ball Aerospace engineer Larkin Carey captured this image.
#NationalSelfieDay
📸
More:
Our role on
#JWST
:
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🚨 BIRST ALERT! 🚨
Rocket launch day is here! 🚀 If our math is correct, it’s going to be a great launch with
@ulalaunch
intern-built rockets Sine, Cosine and Tangent!
#StudentsRockIt
#Ballinterns
#BIRST2022
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Will you be following the reveal of
@NASAWebb
's first images? At Ball, we’re powered by endlessly curious people. Paul Lightsey, Ball’s chief engineer on
#Webb
, says that curiosity fit perfectly with this groundbreaking mission.
#UnfoldtheUniverse
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We're thrilled to host Kira Altman and Katie Melbourne as part of the incredible
@owensfellowship
program!
🌟Introducing the Brookie class of 2019🌟
Congratulations and welcome to the best family in the universe! 💕
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FIVE WEEKS FROM TODAY, New Horizons flies by Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt, and makes the most distant exploration of worlds in history!!
Be there on line with us! Retweets please!
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Another exciting milestone for
@NASARoman
!
The primary mirror, in concert with other optics, will send light to Roman’s two science instruments: the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) and Coronagraph. Ball is providing the WFI Opto-Mechanical Assembly.
📰: NASA
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Two years after historic
#PlutoFlyby
, data from the Ball-built Ralph camera still yields incredible science returns!
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Becca was inspired to pursue
#engineering
by her HS physics teacher.
“She made me realize that there is more than one ‘type’ of engineer, and that you don’t have to just enjoy building things or playing with blocks as a kid to be a good engineer.”
#eWeek2019
@owensfellowship
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Launching in ONE WEEK,
#JPSS1
is the most advanced polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellite yet! More:
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At Ball Aerospace, we are scientists first, fulfilling an extensive portfolio of missions with science-minded engineering. Visit us at
#AAS241
booth
#815
to learn how Ball supports
#ScienceAtAnyScale
by delivering capabilities at all mission sizes and wavelengths.
@AAS_Office
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The
@NASANewHorizons
spacecraft is homing in on the distant, rocky world it will visit on January 1, 2019.
#NewHorizons
#UltimaThule
@NewHorizons2015
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