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Ball Aerospace Instrument to Give New View of Pluto

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is now awaiting the launch of the instrument that will give scientists their first, close views of Pluto. As part of a mission called New Horizons, the Ball-built ...
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Ball Aerospace Delivers Imaging Instrument for NASA’s Mission to Pluto

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered a high-resolution visible and infrared digital imager/spectrometer to the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) and its partner The Johns Hopkins ...
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On Pluto you could throw a baseball over the Great Pyramid of Giza, a scientist's animation reveals

Imagine throwing a baseball. Easy, right? Maybe you've already done it a few times. Now imagine throwing a baseball on the moon. Maybe you've seen enough videos of astronauts bouncing around up there ...