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2. Orbital Sciences Corporation - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Azerspace-1/Africasat-1a - Wikipedia

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   Built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, it was launched by Ariane 5 into orbit on February 7, 2013 from Kourou in French Guiana at orbital positions 46° east. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The satellite covers Europe and a significant part of Asia and Africa.

4. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - Wikipedia

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   In 2013, Orbital Sciences Corporation received a four-year, US$75 million contract to build TESS for NASA. [52] TESS uses an Orbital Sciences LEOStar-2 satellite bus , capable of three-axis stabilization using four hydrazine thrusters plus four reaction wheels providing better than three arcsecond fine spacecraft pointing control.

5. Cygnus (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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   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

6. Timeline of first orbital launches by country - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

7. Category:Orbital Sciences Corporation - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. SES-3 - Wikipedia

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   SES-3 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, and at launch it had a mass of 3,112 kg (6,861 lb). It has a design life of fifteen years, however it was launched with enough fuel to operate for at least sixteen years, if its systems ...

9. Cygnus Orb-D1 - Wikipedia

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   Orbital-D1, [6] also known as Orb-D1, [7] [8] and Cygnus 1, [9] was the first flight of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It was named after the late NASA astronaut and Orbital Sciences executive G. David Low .