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The OrbView series of spacecraft paved the way for today's space-based Earth imaging industry. In addition to the OrbView satellites the company also built the GeoEye-1 high resolution imaging satellite. Orbital LEOStar-2 and -3 spacecraft platforms are designed to support a variety of multispectral, visible and thermal imaging payloads.
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.
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.
OrbView 1 (MicroLab 1, COSPAR 1995-017C) was a small, 68 kg satellite built by Orbital Sciences Corporation for a collaboration between ORBIMAGE and NASA.It had a payload of 2 sensors, one from NASA and another from University Consortium for Atmospheric Research, sponsored by National Science Foundation.
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 ]
Orbital Sciences: 1: Retired 1997 [42] 2001 GEO STAR-2 (GEOStar-2) United States Orbital Sciences: 500 kg 3,325 kg 33 [43] Operational 2002 [42] 2013 GEO, 5550 W GEOStar-3: United States Orbital Sciences: 800 kg 5,000 kg 0: Development GEO, 8000 W SSTL-70 (Microsat-70) United Kingdom Surrey Satellite Technology: 30 kg 70 kg 16: Retired 1992 ...
The Orbital Sciences X-34 was intended to be a low-cost testbed for demonstrating "key technologies" that could be integrated into the Reusable Launch Vehicle program. It was intended to be an autonomous pilotless craft powered by a " Fastrac " liquid-propellant rocket engine, capable of reaching Mach 8 and performing 25 test flights per year.