Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., the aerospace arm of Westminster-based metal-packaging manufacturer Ball Corp., has completed design review on the Wide Field Instrument.

The world's biggest, most powerful space telescope arrived at its observation post 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lifted off on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe.

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Ball has experience with infrared telescopes having built the spacecraft for NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The $320 milion mission, launched in 2009 and concluded in 2011, ...

Including JWST, Ball has contributed to all of NASA’s Great Observatories – Compton Gamma Ray, Hubble, Chandra X-Ray, Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope.

NASA has picked Ball Aerospace to study a new space telescope that won't be launched until the mid-2020s. Broomfield-based Ball Aerospace is going will develop a concept study for the Wide Field ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula studied since the late 1800s.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has announced that the final six mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope have completed cryogenic temperature testing at NASA’s Marshall Space ...

Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received a $113.2 million contract to develop, build and test the main instrument components of NASA‘s upcoming observatory known as the Wide Field Infrared ...

Boulder-based Ball Aerospace will play a role in building NASA’s next-generation space telescope.The company has been awarded a contract worth about $113.2 million to build primary instrument ...