May 16, 2012 · Ball Aerospace was one of five companies awarded up to $600,000 by NASA in September 2011, to formulate a mission concept to demonstrate the solar electric propulsion technologies, capabilities,...

May 16, 2012 · Ball Aerospace was one of five companies awarded up to $600,000 by NASA in September 2011, to formulate a mission concept to demonstrate the solar electric propulsion technologies, capabilities, and infrastructure required for sustainable and affordable human presence in space.

May 16, 2012 · Ball Aerospace was one of five companies awarded up to $600,000 by NASA in September 2011, to formulate a mission concept to demonstrate the solar electric propulsion technologies,...

Nov 30, 2011 · Ball will work with NASA to define a mission concept that will demonstrate the solar electric propulsion technologies, capabilities, and infrastructure required for sustainable, affordable...

NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) project is developing critical technologies to enable government and commercial customers to extend the length and capabilities of ambitious new exploration and science missions.

Abstract: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Ball) has conceptually developed a modular, reusable Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Tug that leverages heritage, commercial capabilities in spacecraft buses and electric propulsion (EP) to minimize the time and cost to market.

Aug 20, 2020 · Ball designed and built the small satellite, which contains NASA's first opportunity to demonstrate the practical capabilities of a "green" propellant and propulsion system in orbit – an alternative to conventional chemical propulsion systems.

Ball Aerospace (Ball) and the Electric Propulsion Laboratory, Inc. (EPL) are in partnership to develop a high specific impulse electric propulsion system. The propulsion system is based on EPL’s Magneto-gradient Electrostatic Plasma 650-Watt (MEP 650) engine technology.

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA's future deep space human exploration missions.

Aug 20, 2020 · Ball Aerospace has successfully completed on-orbit testing of NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM), which included ASCENT, a non-toxic, high-performance propellant developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), on board a Ball-built smallsat.