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Orbital`s OBV Rocket Successfully Launched for MDI System Test

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that its Orbital Booster Vehicle (OBV), which is the booster rocket for the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), was successfully launched as part of a test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Orbital provides the OBV as part of an industry team led by The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) for the […]

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SORCE Heliophysics Science Satellite Celebrates Ten Years in Orbit

Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced that the company is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the launch and successful operation of the company-built Solar and Radiation Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite. Ten years ago today, SORCE was launched into orbit aboard Orbital’s Pegasus rocket in a mission that originated […]

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MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space

The MEXSAT Bicentenario satellite, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] partner Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB], sent its first signals from space today following launch from Kourou aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. Bicentenario is the first of three MEXSAT satellites for the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) of Mexico that will enhance the country’s communications […]

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Star One C3 Communications Satellite Launched

  Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced the Star One C3 communications satellite, built by the company for Star One S.A., was successfully launched into orbit on Saturday, November 10 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. Over the next several weeks, Orbital will work with […]