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With its proprietary GEOStar-2 satellite platform, Orbital has become a leading supplier of 1.5 - 5.5 kilowatt Geosynchronous-Earth Orbit (GEO) communications satellites used to provide direct-to-home TV broadcasting, cable program distribution, business data network capacity, regional mobile communications and similar services.
Orbital Sciences Corporation space launch vehicles (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Orbital Sciences Corporation" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Orbital-1, [7] [8] also known as Orb-1, [8] [9] [4] was the second flight of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft, its second flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and the third launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle. The mission launched on 9 January 2014 at 18:07:05 UTC. [4]
Orbital Sciences Corporation: Ariane 5 G: 9 April 2003 Kourou, ELA-3: Active 129.0° West With INSAT-3A: Galaxy 13: Hughes Aircraft Company: Zenit-3SL: 1 October 2003 Sea Launch: Active 127.0° West Horizons-1: Galaxy 14: Orbital Sciences Corporation: Soyuz-FG: 13 August 2005 Baikonur, Site 31/6: Active 125.0° West Galaxy 15: Orbital Sciences ...
Marshall Islands with a successful launch of a Pegasus-H rocket from Orbital Sciences' Stargazer aircraft flying from Kwajalein Atoll in October 2000. Five ground-based launches were made by SpaceX using Falcon 1 rockets between 2006 and 2009, with the first success on 28 September 2008. [ 14 ]
Artist impression of Optus D1, built on the Orbital Star Bus platform. Star Bus is a satellite bus family of Orbital ATK.It was originally developed by Thomas van der Heyden, co-founder of CTAI, and later sold to and manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
The company became a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) from the United States on 17 November 1995. [3] MDA was primary contractor for, and took ownership of, the RADARSAT-2 Earth observation satellite. [4] MDA bought the space robotics division of Spar Aerospace—manufacturer of the Canadarm—in March 1999, renaming it MD Robotics.
SES-1 was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), and is based on the Star-2.4 satellite bus.It is equipped with 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders.At launch, the satellite had a mass of 2,561 kg (5,646 lb).