Ball Aerospace has been selected to support Solar Cruiser, a NASA small satellite technology demonstration on the use of solar photons for propulsion in space. The company will perform several mission-critical functions, including the integration and test of the satellite bus with the solar sail system that will form the completed "Sailcraft." The Solar Cruiser will be one of four missions launching with the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, currently scheduled in 2025. Once in orbit, the spacecraft will deploy an 18,000-square-foot sail – roughly the size of four regulation basketball courts stitched together – to catch solar radiation to propel the vehicle. Les Johnson, from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the mission's principal investigator.Ball Aerospace will be responsible for procuring a Venus-class microsat commercial bus, defining all necessary mission-specific modifications, and performing the integration and test of the completed Sailcraft. In addition to Solar Cruiser, Ball Aerospace will play roles on two of the other three missions launching on NASA's IMAP, including the Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Follow On.