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Amazec Photonics Secures €1.5M; BluGlass Raises $4.3M: Week in Brief: 2/16/24
SILVERWATER, Australia Feb. 16, 2024 — BluGlass Limited, a semiconductor developer, has received $4.3 million in commitments from institutional and sophisticated investors. The funds will be used to scale and speed production and delivery of BluGlass’ visible lasers to fulfil new...
BAE Systems to Acquire Ball Aerospace
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Aug. 17, 2023 — Ball Corp. has reached an agreement to sell its aerospace business to BAE Systems for $5.6 billion in cash. BAE Systems is a provider of high-tech solutions for defense markets, including imaging, sensors, and optical displays, among others. Ball...
Fiberoptic Components Rebrands as Innofiber: Week in Brief: 12/09/22
STERLING, Mass., Dec. 9, 2022 — Fiberoptic Components LLC, a supplier and manufacturer of fiber optic cables and engineered photonic solutions, rebranded as Innofiber — to reflect its commitment to innovation and expertise in fiber optic cable technology, the company said....
NeoPhotonics Charges Forward in 800G Transceiver Race: Week in Brief: 03/04/22
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4, 2022 — NeoPhotonics Corp. reported that it successfully used its indium phosphide-based coherent receiver and coherent modulators, coupled with its ultranarrow linewidth tunable lasers or distributed feedback lasers to demonstrate 120-Gbaud operation in...
From Masers to Lasers in Space — and at the Cinema!
Oct 7, 2016 — Sixty years ago, physicists Charles Hard Townes, James P. Gordon and H.J. Zeiger demonstrated the maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). It wasn’t long before Townes and fellow physicist Arthur Schawlow proved...
Understanding Our Universe, The Future of Photonics Is Written in the Stars
Jan 12, 2016 — Engineers and astronomers hope to see the planet’s surface firsthand in a few years, via the Orion mission. Since NASA was established nearly 60 years ago, the average person’s understanding of the universe has grown, thanks to the...
Technologies from Ball, Corning, Photonis, SwRI Help Image Pluto
BOULDER, Colo., July 17, 2015 — Providing never-before-seen images of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission used imaging and spectroscopy equipment to secure the highest-resolution images ever captured of the dwarf planet. After traveling nearly 10 years and 3 billion miles, New...
Ball Aerospace Delivers Laser Ranging Subsystems to JPL
BOULDER, Colo., July 6, 2015 — Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) key components for a laser ranging system designed to measure changes in the Earth's ocean, groundwater and glaciers. The next generation of NASA's...
Bach Research Supplying Optics for Multiple Atmospheric Study Missions
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 19, 2015 — Bach Research Corp. has completed two contracts and begun one more for optical components to be used in satellites studying the Earth’s atmosphere. Under a new contract with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Bach will manufacture custom...
Final JWST Mirrors Arrive at Goddard
GREENBELT, Md., Dec. 19, 2013 — The final three of 18 primary mirrors built for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have arrived at Goddard Space Flight Center for integration prior to a scheduled launch in 2018, principal optical subcontractor Ball Aerospace & Technologies...
Membrane Optics Telescope Demo’d for DARPA
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 9, 2013 — A lightweight telescope created using polymer membrane optics and developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. was demonstrated for DARPA, the company reported recently. Ball is incrementally demonstrating technology needed to deploy a...
Webb Telescope Completes Optical Milestone
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 17, 2013 — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope aft-optics subsystem (AOS) has passed performance testing at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., setting another optical milestone.
Endeavour Crew Tests Critical Docking Sensor
DENVER, June 1, 2011 — In an unprecedented on-orbit maneuver, space shuttle Endeavour crew members completed the first-ever Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV)-like approach to the International Space Station as part of the Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation...
2010 Prism Award Finalists Named
Nov 9, 2010 — The finalists have been named for the 2010 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, an international competition sponsored by Photonics Media and SPIE to recognize photonics products that break conventional ideas, solve problems and improve life...
HiRise Returns Mega Terabits
MARS, June 21, 2007 -- Onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, providing a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen, said the HiRise Operations Center at the University of Arizona (UA). The most...
US Air Force Selects Ball Aerospace as Prime Contractor for LEOSS
Sep 15, 2006 — Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., announced it has been selected as prime contractor for phase A of the Lightweight Electro-Optical Space Sensor (LEOSS) program by the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force...
Axsys Joins Telescope Mirror Team
Sep 23, 2003 — ROCKY HILL, Conn., Sept. 23 -- Axsys Technologies Inc., a fabricator of large beryllium mirror substrates and structures used on space and defense applications, announced it is part of a team selected by Northrop Grumman Corp. to produce mirrors for...
Brashear to Build Space Telescope Optical Assemblies
Jun 25, 2003 — PITTSBURGH, June 25 -- Brashear LP has received a multimillion dollar contract from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., to design and fabricate large space optical assemblies for NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. Kepler, a NASA...
Ball Aerospace Instruments to Accompany SIRTF
Apr 9, 2003 — BOULDER, Colo., April 9 -- A Ball Aerospace cryogenic telescope assembly and two Ball-built science instruments will be on board the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), which is set to launch April 18 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. SIRTF is the...
Ball Aerospace Wins NASA Sensing Contracts
Mar 26, 2003 — BOULDER, Colo., March 26 -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded three contracts to perform technology development of earth science remote-sensing instruments under NASA’s Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). Ball Aerospace staff...
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