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Ball Aerospace

Ball Aerospace - Who We Are

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Enabling Firsts. Driving Innovation.

Technologies at Ball

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Laser Communications – Ready for Mission Implementation

• Provide wide-bandwidth

connectivity for near-

Earth and deep-space

data relay missions

• Support enhanced

payload capabilities

and eliminate

bandwidth as a

constraint for these

missions

Technology Description

Innovation Status/Results

Mission• Near infrared (1.55-um) transceivers

• Integrated pointing and tracking tailored to

mission and host platform environments – Wide-

FOR gimbal, Precise PAM and FSM, Low-risk

position sensors, Proven inertial measurement

devices, Control algorithms

• Stable telescope (GrEp, SiC, Be, Zerodur) and

composite optical bench

• Packaged control electronics for autonomous

operations and effective host interfaces

• Low-risk integration

of transceiver

components

developed for fiber-

based

telecommunications

• Precision pointing-

acquisition-tracking

based on proven

hardware concepts

• Successful prior industry

demonstrations – GOLD,

GeoLITE, SILEX/ ARTEMIS,

LADEE, Tesat

• Several Ball terminal concepts

developed and tested – GEO,

LEO, Air, and Ground

• Critical technologies developed

and integrated – TRL 6 terminals

in hand for multiple applications

GEO-Data Relay

Spaceborne Remote Sensing

Space Station Data Relay

Teledesic LEO

Crosslink

Surveillance Satellite Network

DeepSpaceProbe

GEO

LEO

Air

• Design-to-cost &

DFMA methodologies Ground

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Ball Aerospace Proprietary Information

Ball SBIR Points of Contact

� Ball SBIR point of contact

– Pom Gilmore

– 303-939-5396

– cgilmore@ball.com

� Ball Small Business Office

– Pam Byrd

– 303-939-6344

– pbyrd@ball.com

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