Ball to Build Ares Mission Computers

In a $50-million, 4-year contract, Boeing has tapped Ball Aerospace & Technologies to build the instrument unit assembly (IUA), flight computer and command telemetry computer for Ares I, the shuttle-replacement crew launch vehicle. Ball says it will use its common computing architecture already...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.