Orbital Sciences Corporation News

Orbital Sciences Corp., which makes small rockets, satellites and other space equipment, said Wednesday it received a contract for a communications satellite with OverHorizon, a satellite telephone and broadband provider.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it has signed a contract for a new geosynchronous communications satellite contract with OverHorizon, with offices in the U.S., Sweden and Cyprus.

Orbital Sciences Corp. has been contracted by London-based Avanti Communications Group PLC to provide a new communications satellite.

In today' Rocket Round Up: Satellite data points to climate change conditions ; Carbon dioxide could warm Earth by several degrees, Texas A&M study says.

Orbital Sciences Corporation , a world leader in smaller-sized civil government and national security satellites, announced today that it has been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , Arlington, VA, to develop the final design for "System F6" . The Phase 2 award to Orbital came as a result of a down-select ...

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Orbital Sciences Corporation , one of the worlda s leading space technology companies, today announced that it has been selected by Intelsat, S.A., the leading provider of fixed satellite services, to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 23 commercial communications satellite.

9. Joe Migliaccio, the Aerospace Testing Alliance engineer who conducted the test, said the team fired Alliant Techsystems, Inc.'s CASTOR 30 rocket motor for approximately two and a half minutes, which is longer than any previous rocket motor test entry since J-6 became operational in 1994.

Alliant Techsystems successfully tested its newly developed CASTOR 30 upper stage solid rocket motor today at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee.

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Loudoun's director of economic development is resigning effective Dec. 4. Larry Rosenstrauch joined as director in 1996.

Beleaguered Boeing backers got a rare bit of good news this week. Over in the nation's capital, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just overturned a lower court's ruling that stripped Boeing of its contract to service KC-135 refueling tankers.

Albuquerque's Emcore Corp. has received a contract from Dutch Space to make, test and deliver solar panels to power the Cygnus spacecraft.

NASA's efforts to transform human space missions could boost Arizona's aerospace industry.

Orbital Sciences Corp., which makes small rockets, satellites and other space equipment, said Tuesday its third-quarter profit fell nearly 18 percent, but still handily beat Wall Street's estimates.

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation , announced today it has agreed with Orbital Sciences Corporation to supply Proximity Link System components that will guide Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft to the International Space Station on nine re-supply missions for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration .

The Washington Business Journal's annual listing of the region's top technology companies finds two Loudoun firms among the top 50.

David Thompson, Orbital's chairman and chief executive officer, speaks during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the company's new office building in Chandler.

Orbital Sciences Corp. will officially open its new Arizona Program Management Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Thursday at 3377 S. Price Road, Chandler.