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Green Spacecraft Fuel Ready for Liftoff

July 12, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ball Aerospace and Aerojet Rocketdyne say they have met the first milestone in demonstrating a more environmentally friendly spacecraft fuel by completing an end-to-end checkout of the 22 Newton thruster required for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). This is the first time the US will use a spacecraft to ... Read more »

Ball Ups Energy Efficiency, Cuts GHGs

May 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ball Corporation has reduced its Climate Intensity Index (CII) by 4.8 percent, compared to a 2010 baseline, moving the company closer toward its 2015 greenhouse gas emission reduction goal of 10 percent, according to Ball’s updated sustainability data. Ball says it uses a CII calculated based on the total GHG ... Read more »

SPX Compressor Cuts Energy Use at Ball Corp. Site

May 20, 2013 by Leon Walker

A Ball Corporation facility in Whitby, Ontario, has achieved significant energy savings by replacing a number of inefficient refrigeration air dryers with a single high-efficiency SPX Hankison HES Series dryer, according to a feature on SustainablePlant. Air compressors are the main use of energy at Ball canning facilities, accounting for around 20 to 30 percent ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Ball, Lockheed Marin, John Deere, Schneider Electric, Xylem, Fuel Tech

May 16, 2013May 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the National Institute of Environmental Research in South Korea. GEMS is a geostationary scanning ultraviolet-visible spectrometer designed to monitor trans-boundary pollution for the Korean peninsula and ... Read more »

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