Just one year ago, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. was on top of the world. The company was on track for a record year in bookings, and its civ-il and commercial space division was poised to reap the benefits following the White House decision to dismantle ajoint civil-military weather satellite program.But contracting with the U.S. govern-ment necessarily means accepting a level of uncertainty. Work on several of the Boulder, Colo.-based firm's satellite contracts has been slowed or halted in recent months, and the outiook for future Earth science missions — one of Ball's competitive strengths — has dimmed.
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