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Orbital's national security systems range from smaller, more affordable spacecraft buses (e.g. disaggregated systems) to hosted payload applications. [34] Orbital advocates disaggregated systems because conceptually disaggregated systems can lower the cost and accelerate the development and deployment of national security space systems.
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.
BSAT-2b, was a geostationary communications satellite ordered by B-SAT which was designed and manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation on the STAR-1 platform. It was designed to be stationed on the 110° East orbital slot along its companion BSAT-2a where it would provide redundant high definition direct television broadcasting across Japan.
Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 1 Standard 9 January 2014, 18:07:05 Antares 120: 2,780 lb (1,260 kg) Success [28] [29] [33] [30] First Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) mission for Cygnus, first Antares launch using the Castor 30B upper stage. 3 Orb-2 Janice E. Voss: Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 2 Standard 13 July 2014, 16:52:14 Antares 120
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.
OA-7, previously known as Orbital-7, is the eighth flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. [5] The mission launched on 18 April 2017 at 15:11:26 UTC. Orbital and NASA jointly developed a new space ...
Orbital joined SpaceX as one of only two private entities to supply the International Space Station with its launch of the Cygnus Orb-D1 mission on its Antares rocket on September 28, 2013. [ 16 ] United States SpaceX (USA) became the second company to launch a rocket into orbit using a rocket developed with private—not government—funds. [ 17 ]
OA-5, previously known as Orbital-5, was the seventh planned flight of the Orbital Sciences' uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. [13] [14] The mission launched on 17 October 2016 at 23:45:36 UTC. Orbital Sciences and NASA jointly ...