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Year founded: 1982
Approximately 3,600 employees
M
ajor facilities in Dulles, Virginia,
Chandler, Arizona and Gilbert, Arizona
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bout 1,050 satellites and launch
vehicles built or on order:
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evenues of about $1.4 billion
expected in 2013
NYSE: ORB
Launch Systems
Orbital is the industry leader in developing and manufacturing innovative,
reliable and affordable launch vehicles to boost small and medium-class
satellites into space, to protect our nation, and to advance mans quest
to venture beyond Earth. Our new Antares medium-class launch vehicle
is designed to provide responsive, low-cost, and reliable access to
space for payloads weighing over 5,000 kilograms. Our Pegasus space
launch vehicle is launched from a modified L-1011 aircraft to provide
highly reliable access to space with unprecedented operational flexibility.
Employing many technologies developed for Pegasus, our groundlaunched Taurus and Minotaur family of rockets provide dependable and
affordable launch services for commercial, scientific and military space
payloads. Orbital also has a proud heritage of providing highly dependable
and affordable launch vehicles employed in the nations missile defense
programs to protect our nation, our allies and military forces in the field
from missile attack.
Orbitals space launch vehicles are the industry standard for delivering
small payloads into orbit. Pegasus, with its patented air-launched system,
and the ground-launched Taurus have launched 88 satellites in over
50 missions since 1990. Our Minotaur family of launchers combine
decommissioned ICBM rocket motors and commercial upper stages
and other subsystems to provide reliable and low-cost launch services
for U.S. Government space missions. Since their debut in 2000, Minotaur
rockets have achieved 100% mission success, having launched 42
satellites into orbit.
Orbital has also developed the Antares medium-class space launch
vehicle to boost payloads into a variety of low Earth and geosynchronous
transfer orbits, and to Earth escape trajectories. Incorporating proven
technologies from our Pegasus, Taurus and Minotaur rockets, Antares is
an integral element of Orbitals Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) program
to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.
Orbital is proud to provide the interceptor vehicles for the U.S. Missile
Defense Agencys (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
program. Employing technologies derived from our space launch vehicles,
our GMD interceptor boosters carry kill vehicles to destroy long-range
enemy missiles in mid-flight, protecting the United States, our allies and
deployed forces from potential future attacks.
Communications Satellites
Orbitals GEOStar geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellites are the
best-selling small-class communications satellites in the world. Because
GEOStar satellites are more reliable and affordable than those offered by
other suppliers, they offer clear economic advantages in many business
situations. As a result, the worlds leading satellite communications service
providers employ GEOStar satellites for direct-to-home television, cable
television distribution, business data connectivity, broadband capacity and
other communications missions.
More Information
Visit our web site: www.orbital.com
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