Ball Aerospace-built WorldView-2 Satellite Successfully Launched

BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite designed and built for
DigitalGlobe successfully launched today from Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif., at 11:51 a.m. PDT, on board a Boeing Delta II rocket.

WorldView-2 joins its sister satellites built by Ball Aerospace: WorldView-1
launched in 2007, and QuickBird launched in 2001. The satellite trio is
expected to bring unsurpassed agility, capacity, accuracy and spectral
diversity to commercial earth imaging.

"The successful launch of WorldView-2 marks a new milestone for the
collection of imagery by these highly sophisticated satellites," said
President and CEO of Ball Aerospace," David L. Taylor.

WorldView-2 and WorldView-1 are the only commercial satellites integrated with
control moment gyroscopes (CMGs). These high-performance CMGs provide
acceleration up to 10X that of other attitude control actuators and their
agility improve both maneuvering and targeting capability. The CMGs afford
both satellites the flexibility to capture more imagery than previously
possible.

The Ball Aerospace, Ball Commercial Platform 5000 spacecraft, utilized for
both the WorldView-1 and Worldview-2, is designed to handle both
next-generation optical and synthetic aperture radar remote sensing payloads.
The high-performance BCP 5000 has a design life of more than seven years, and
provides a platform with increased power, agility, flexibility, transmission
capability and data storage. In addition to manufacture of the satellite bus,
Ball Aerospace integrated the WorldView-2 remote sensing instrument provided
by ITT and performed all system testing.

DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution, world
imagery products and services. The launch of WorldView-2 will vastly improve
DigitalGlobe's ability to collect and maintain up-to-date imagery in the areas
of greatest interest to its clients.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions of important
national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S.
government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures
spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation
systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications.

Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic
packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of
aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S.
government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,500
people worldwide and reported 2008 sales of approximately $7.6 billion.

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events or otherwise. Key risks and uncertainties are summarized in filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99.2 in our
Form 10-K, which are available at our Web site and at www.sec.gov. Factors
that might affect our packaging segments include fluctuation in product demand
and preferences; availability and cost of raw materials; competitive packaging
availability, pricing and substitution; changes in climate and weather; crop
yields; competitive activity; failure to achieve anticipated productivity
improvements or production cost reductions, including our beverage can end
project; mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in
major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major customer or supplier;
and changes in foreign exchange rates, tax rates and activities of foreign
subsidiaries. Factors that might affect our aerospace segment include:
funding, authorization, availability and returns of government and commercial
contracts; and delays, extensions and technical uncertainties affecting
segment contracts. Factors that might affect the company as a whole include
those listed plus: accounting changes; changes in senior management; the
current global credit squeeze and its effects on liquidity, credit risk, asset
values and the economy; successful or unsuccessful acquisitions, joint
ventures or divestitures; integration of recently acquired businesses;
regulatory action or laws including tax, environmental, health and workplace
safety, including in respect of chemicals or substances used in raw materials
or in the manufacturing process; governmental investigations; technological
developments and innovations; goodwill impairment; antitrust, patent and other
litigation; strikes; labor cost changes; rates of return projected and earned
on assets of the company's defined benefit retirement plans; pension changes;
reduced cash flow; interest rates affecting our debt; and changes to unaudited
results due to statutory audits or other effects.

SOURCE Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Roz Brown of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., +1-303-533-6059,
rbrown@ball.com