Sponsor Profile: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

The invitation-only Congressional Luncheon is an exclusive - and extraordinary - event at the 26th National Space Symposium. It provides space leaders a fresh and direct perspective on policy, legislative, and regulatory developments in Washington, D.C., as well as offering an opportunity for high-level networking. The 2010 Congressional Luncheon will be held on April 13 and will be sponsored by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Supporting critical missions of important national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA, and other U.S. government and commercial entities, Ball Aerospace develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical, and scientific applications.

Ball Aerospace's primary mission areas include:

• Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance - collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information to support national security, soldiers, and law enforcement officers
• Space Science & Exploration - supporting civilian agencies responsible for human, robotic, and scientific space exploration in areas including astrophysics, heliophysics, and planetary science, development of viable instrument and mission concepts, engineering design and analysis, and hardware implementation
• Weather & Environment - helping NASA and NOAA collect data that furthers knowledge about Earth's atmosphere, oceans, clouds, and winds
• Integrated Battlespace - providing technologies that gather and translate real-time data and return critical information to decision-makers
• Space Superiority - assuring access to space, maintaining freedom of operations, and denying/negating an adversary's ability to do the same
• Technology Components - enabling remote sensing and astronomical measurement, control, and imaging solutions, including fast-steering mirrors and gimbals for line-of-sight stabilization, sensors for spacecraft attitude knowledge, and cryo-thermal systems for spacecraft instrument and focal plane thermal control

For more information on Ball Aerospace, click here.

The premier gathering of the global space community, the 26th National Space Symposium will be held April 12-15 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Spring, Colo.

To see a list of corporate sponsors, click here; to learn how to become a corporate sponsor, email Sponsorships@SpaceFoundation.org.