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Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most. Together, we #GoBeyond®
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Mission update ✖️3⃣!
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Tower stowed ✅ Lens cap removed ✅ Sunshield pallets stowed ✅ 3 more testing milestones have been completed for #NASAWebb! The world’s most complex & powerful space telescope is making big progress for its launch & million-mile journey later this year. go.nasa.gov/3ihiquc
Ball Aerospace technician Larkin Carey carefully removes Webb’s "lens cap" from the Aft Optics Subsystem which has kept the observatory’s sensitive instruments clean, contaminant-free, and protected from stray light throughout the integration and test process. Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
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The launch webcast is live! See ’s #IXPE head to space! ⤵️ Are you watching along with us? 👍🏽 #IXPElaunch
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LIVE NOW: Our Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (#IXPE) is about to lift off on a @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from @NASAKennedy! We're targeting 1am EST (06:00 UTC) for launch: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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❤️ this throwback! Ball Aerospace designed and built the advanced optical technology and lightweight mirror system that will enable to look 13.5 billion years back in time! #JWST #ThrowbackThursday More on our role: bit.ly/3bKjval
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Here's a #ThrowbackThursday to when #NASAWebb's flight mirrors were undergoing cryogenic testing @NASA_Marshall! Testing took place in a huge, helium-cooled vacuum chamber, which took Webb's mirrors from room temperature all the way down to -379 degree F, or -228 degrees C! 🥶
An engineer stands to the right of six of the Webb Telescope's primary mirror segments, at the entrance of NASA Marshall's X-ray and Cryogenic Facility.
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What an amazing year-end update! This milestone brings yet another step closer to launch. Our role on #JWST: bit.ly/37wVWkL
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With the end of the year just days away, we're excited to announce #NASAWebb has cleared one of its most important milestones to date. Its 5-layer sunshield has been successfully deployed & tensioned into the same configuration it will have in space! go.nasa.gov/3mtYG6J
The James Webb Space Telescope, shown with its fully deployed and tensioned sunshield. An engineer stands to the left.
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That's a solid packing job right there! 🎒 Ball Aerospace proudly designed and built the advanced optical technology and lightweight mirror system for ! Learn more: bit.ly/2tkMQ92
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A million mile trip into space requires careful packing. 🧳 Engineers have successfully folded and packed #NASAWebb's sunshield — a heat protector the size of a tennis court. Read more about Webb's latest update at @northropgrumman: go.nasa.gov/3g2x5Kz
The layers of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield are laid as flat as possible as preparation for its folding. In this image, all of the layers except for the top layer have been flattened.
Technicians work together to lift up the James Webb Space Telescope's flattened sunshield in preparation for the folding process.
Technicians examine the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield in the Northrop Grumman cleanroom.
A technician hunches over a platform to carefully fold the sunshield layers of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The boom is deployed! 🥳 's #IXPE unfolded its origami boom and new science is just around the corner.
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🛰️ @NASA's newest X-ray observatory IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, has unfolded its origami boom. #IXPE is now one step closer to studying some of the most energetic and mysterious places in the universe in a new way. Learn more>> go.nasa.gov/3GQ8Qt6
A gif of IXPE deploying in space before starting its science operations to study the cosmos.
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Thanks for the visit! Acting Admin. Lightfoot heard from Ball's OLI-2 program manager, Leanne Presley. OLI-2 will fly aboard 9
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Acting NASA Admin Lightfoot sees space missions come together with @LockheedMartin, @SierraNevCorp & @BallAerospace: nasa.tumblr.com/post/159311970
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Secondary mirror deployed!
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Replying to @NASAWebb
CONFIRMED: “The world’s most sophisticated tripod” has not only deployed but also latched! Each of the struts for this tripod, which helps #NASAWebb’s secondary mirror direct light into the instruments, is about 25 feet long (7.6 m)! blogs.nasa.gov/webb #UnfoldTheUniverse
Following a successful deployment test of Webb’s secondary mirror, technicians and engineers in cleanroom suits visually inspect the tripod-like support structure that holds it in place.
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Are we alone? will play an important role in answering life’s most fundamental questions. Our employees are answering questions about the premier observatory itself for students at #AAS GN&C’s STEM-SCAPE as well as a group of teachers who visited Ball Aerospace. #JWST
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Have you heard of BIRB? It's not just a fun acronym.🖤 The Ball InfraRed Black (BIRB) paint made by is vital to regulating #Webb's temperature. 🌡 See how it works! 👇🏼
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No pets are onboard the Webb Telescope, but we do have BIRB 🐦 BIRB, made by @BallAerospace, stands for Ball InfraRed Black. It’s a super dark paint on our radiator that helps keep our science instruments cool! Find our how in our latest “Elements of Webb” episode 👇
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We're proud to host/hire amazing 'Brookies' like Katie! The offers paid internships & executive mentorship for exceptional undergrad women & gender-minority students in aerospace. Applications are open now! brookeowensfellowship.org #BecomeABrookie
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We all love a good #BrookeOwensFellow success story! Katie Melbourne just accepted a full time position with host company Ball Aerospace! Katie will be Associate Systems Engineer in Boulder, CO! Congrats Katie! 🥳🤩👩‍🚀🚀 #BOF
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Another exciting milestone for ! The primary mirror, in concert with other optics, will send light to Roman’s two science instruments: the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) and Coronagraph. Ball is providing the WFI Opto-Mechanical Assembly. 📰: NASA
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