Ball Aerospace Wins WorldView 2 Contract (Forwarded)

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Jan. 2, 2007

Ball Aerospace Wins WorldView 2 Contract

Boulder, Colo. -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by
DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest resolution commercial
satellite imagery and geospatial information products, to build WorldView 2,
its third satellite in a constellation of spacecraft that offer the
highest-resolution imagery of Earth. WorldView 2 is the fourth
remote-sensing satellite built by Ball Aerospace for Digital Globe.

"The WorldView 2 spacecraft bus is the eighth contracted program in our Ball
Commercial Platform (BCP) satellite product line," said Ball Aerospace
President and CEO, David L. Taylor. "The BCP product line continues to
mature in reliability, capability and state-of-the-art technology. The
WorldView 2 contract builds upon our heritage of more than 16 years of
successful on-orbit mission performance."

Ball Aerospace will provide the BCP 5000 for WorldView 2, anticipated to
launch in 2008. The spacecraft bus offers increased resolution and target
selection flexibility, and accommodates future optical, scientific and
Synthetic Aperture Radar remote-sensing payloads. The BCP 5000's power,
stability, agility, and data storage and transmission capability, together
meet the requirements to deliver comprehensive Earth remote-sensing
information.

Ball Aerospace is completing integration of the sensor for WorldView 1,
scheduled to be on-orbit in mid-2007. Once launched, WorldView 1 will supply
half-meter resolution commercial imagery content to DigitalGlobe customers
worldwide, and will provide still-higher resolution imaging capability than
the Ball Aerospace-built QuickBird satellite. The advanced Control Moment
Gyroscopes (CMGs) provided by Ball for WorldView 1 and WorldView 2, afford
the satellites the flexibility and agility to capture more imagery than ever
before. The addition of WorldView 2 provides the capability of 8-band
multispectral pictures at resolutions as sharp as 1.8 meters and
panchromatic at half-meter.

DigitalGlobe is a leader in the commercial marketplace providing
unprecedented imagery with the highest resolution, largest footprint and
highest accuracy of any other commercially available satellite imagery in
the world.

"Since our first successful teaming with the QuickBird launch in October
2001, DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace have been making history in meeting
the increased demand for Earth imaging collection," said Jill Smith,
DigitalGlobe president and CEO. "The WorldView satellites will further
enhance our contributions to the geospatial information market."

Ball Aerospace celebrated its 50th year in business in 2006. The company
began building pointing controls for military rockets in 1956, and later won
a contract to build one of NASA's first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar
Observatory. Over the years, the company has been responsible for numerous
technological and scientific firsts' and now acts as a technology innovator
for important national missions.

Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging
products and owns Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ball reported 2005
sales of $5.8 billion and employs 15,600 people.