Eric Kelly

Eric Kelly is a Senior Project Engineer in Thermal Engineering for Ball Aerospace. Mr. Kelly is currently the Ball thermal design lead on the NASA IXPE Project. He has over 30 years of thermal design and analysis experience most of which has been at Ball Aerospace. He has been the thermal lead engineer on numerous bus and instrument programs and was the thermal products manager for over 12 years supporting multiple commercial and governmental space programs. He was the program manager on the Coherent Beacon Antenna program and several proposals. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1984. He received a NASA Group Achievement Award for his efforts on the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) Observatory and Mission Operations Team and the ICESat Mission Development Team.