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Article: Ball Aerospace Selected by Thales for Iridium NEXT Integration Role.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Thales Alenia Space have agreed to work jointly on the next-generation satellite constellation Iridium NEXT program. Ball Aerospace's possible roles and responsibilities would be assembly, integration and test (AI&T) for the Iridium satellites.
Under the current agreement, Ball Aerospace will apply its payload accommodation experience and product-line approach, leveraging decades of experience in producing commercial fixed-price remote sensing satellites. The company will process as many as four spacecraft at one time through its Boulder-based satellite production facility.
Additionally, Ball Aerospace will advise ...