SWFO-L1

NASA Awards Contracts for NOAA Coronagraph Instrument Phase A Study

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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GREENBELT, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study.

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  • GREENBELT, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study.
  • The principal purpose of these contracts is to provide a definition-phase study of a L1 Series COR instrument.
  • The COR instrument will provide Coronal imagery of the Sun for detection and characterization of the Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections.
  • NOAA funds, operates, and manages the mission and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the acquisition of the Phase A Formulation contracts.

Ball Aerospace Completes Critical Design Review of NOAA's Space Weather Monitoring Satellite

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace successfully completed critical design review (CDR) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft.

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  • BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace successfully completed critical design review (CDR) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft.
  • Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to design, build and integrate the small satellite for NOAA's SWFO-L1 mission in partnership with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • Ball will also perform satellite-level testing, help train the flight operations team, check-out the satellite in orbit and support mission operations.
  • Ball Aerospace is also building an operational environmental satellite for the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center called the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M).

Rocket Lab selected by Ball Aerospace to Power NASA’s GLIDE Spacecraft

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Thursday, June 9, 2022
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Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) (Rocket Lab or the Company), a leading launch and space systems company, has been selected by Ball Aerospace to manufacture the Solar Array Panel (SAP) to power NASAs Global Lyman-Alpha Imager of Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) mission spacecraft planned to launch in 2025.

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  • Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) (Rocket Lab or the Company), a leading launch and space systems company, has been selected by Ball Aerospace to manufacture the Solar Array Panel (SAP) to power NASAs Global Lyman-Alpha Imager of Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) mission spacecraft planned to launch in 2025.
  • The GLIDE spacecraft will launch with another Rocket Lab-powered spacecraft, also built by Ball Aerospace, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAAs) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1).
  • Rocket Lab has become the go-to provider of space solar power and space systems products throughout the space industry, including for ambitious heliophysics missions like GLIDE, said Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck.
  • I am grateful to our partners at Ball Aerospace for selecting Rocket Lab and excited to be working with them to support NASAs Heliophysics missions to deliver advanced science.