BAE shoots for the stars with £4bn space deal: UK defence giant to buy America’s Ball Aerospace By John-Paul Ford Rojas Published: 21:59 BST, 17 August 2023 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 17 August 2023 BAE Systems took a giant leap into the space sector yesterday with a £4.4billion deal to […]
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WASHINGTON — BAE Systems, a defense and security conglomerate based in the United Kingdom, announced Aug. 17 it intends to acquire Ball Aerospace for $5.5 billion. Ball Aerospace, based in Westminster, Colorado, is a manufacturer of spacecraft, components and other systems for military, civil and commercial space applications. The acquisition […]
LIVE BUSINESS LIVE: BAE Systems to buy Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn By Live Commentary Published: 07:41 BST, 17 August 2023 | Updated: 10:19 BST, 17 August 2023 The FTSE 100 is down 0.4 per cent in early trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are BAE Systems; […]
Ball Aerospace is growing rapidly. The backlog for the Westminster, Colorado, company’s portfolio, which includes sensors, spacecraft, data services and components, jumped 20 percent between 2021 and 2022 to reach $3 billion. Another $5 billion in Ball contracts booked were not yet added to the backlog, the company reported in […]
The first Weather System Follow-on Microwave satellite is projected to launch in 2024, the second one in 2028 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ordered a second environmental satellite known as the Weather System Follow-on Microwave, or WSF-M, made by Ball Aerospace. The first one was purchased in 2018 […]
The satellites, projected to launch in 2024 and 2025, are part of the agency’s NExT program WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency announced Oct. 4 it awarded Ball Aerospace a $176 million contract to build, operate and secure launch services for 10 experimental satellites. The satellites, projected to launch in […]
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies and L3Harris Technologies to study instruments for Geostationary and Extended Observations (GeoXO), the agency’s next generation of geostationary satellites. The 20-month, firm-fixed-price contracts are valued at approximately $8 million apiece. Under the contracts announced […]
The payload is for the Next-Generation OPIR geosynchronous satellites made by Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — A new sensor payload developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace to detect missile launches has passed a critical design review, the companies announced Aug. 5. The payload is one of two being manufactured […]