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Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite Interoperability With SpaceWire; Cary Ludtke Comments

Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite Interoperability With SpaceWire; Cary Ludtke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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ball areospaceBall Aerospace & Technologies has evaluated how a U.S. weather forecasting satellite platform could integrate with the spacecraft communication network SpaceWire.

Joint Polar Satellite System-1 is a collaboration between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and is designed to track global climate patterns, Ball Aerospace said Monday.

The company built the JPSS-1’s satellite bus structure and remote-sensing components, including the Ozone Mapping and Profile Suite.

“With the SpaceWire risk reduction test behind us, we have initiated spacecraft bus integration and are proceeding ahead of schedule toward instrument integration in November of this year,” said Cary Ludtke, vice president and general manager for Ball Aerospace’s operational space business unit.

JPSS-1 is scheduled to undergo power-up testing later this month and lift off in early 2017.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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