Ball Seeks Adopters for DARPA-funded Optical Sensor Tech

摘要

Several U.S. government agencies, including NASA, are interested in a new lightweight technology that Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to collect real-time video and images from geosynchronous orbit, a company executive said. Dave Kaufman, Ball Aerospace's national defense vice president and general manager, said in an April 17 interview that the prototype Membrane Optic Imager Real-time Exploitation (MOIRE) is coming to the end of environmental testing and its formal demonstration period. Boulder, Colo.-based Ball is now in discussions with several U.S. government agencies to see which might be interested in funding further development of the technology.