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Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB) is in the Technology Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $1.0B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $56.7M
- Market Cap
- Oct 09 2008
- $1.1B
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Orbital Sciences Corporation Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Gary Liebowitz of Wachovia Securities. Gary Liebowitz - Wachovia Securities Garrett, can you just go over your customary score card for the GEO satellite outlook and also if you can comment on whether you’re seeing any indication that...
Orbital Sciences Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Patrick McCarthy with FBR Capital Markets. Patrick McCarthy - FBR Capital Markets Hi. Good morning, and congratulations on another great quarter. I was wondering if you'd take just a couple of minutes...
Orbital Sciences Corp. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Your first question comes from the line of Howard Rubel – Jefferies & Co. Howard Rubel – Jefferies & Co First, if we look at the outlook for next year, not a lot of revenue growth maybe 3% or so, do you expect it...
Orbital Sciences Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Troy Lahr with Stifel Nicolaus Troy Lahr - Stifel Nicolaus Thanks for taking my question. I am wondering if you guys could address the margins a little bit at Satellite Space Systems. I think...
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Orbital Successfully Launches Minotaur II Target Launch Vehicle in Support of Near-Field Infrared Experiment
-- Mission Marks 15th Consecutive Success for Minotaur Launch Vehicles -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that its Minotaur II+ rocket was successfully launched for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center SMC in support of the Missile Defense Agency MDA Near-Field...
Orbital Awarded New Minotaur IV Mission by U.S. Air Force
Rocket to Launch Military Technology Demonstration Payload in 2010 New Order Represents the Eighth Minotaur IV Rocket Under Contract with the U.S. Air Force DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) today announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center SMC recently placed...
Aerospace & Defense News - Space
Sep 1, 2008 A scale-model plasma rocket engine that is to be tested at the International Space Station could be delivered in 2012 by a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services COTS program launch system. Houston, Texas-based AdAstraRocket's ISS Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket Vasimir test article will be...
Orbital Awarded Contract for IS-18 Commercial Communications Satellite by Intelsat
-- New Geosynchronous Orbit Satellite to be the Eighth Orbital-Built Spacecraft in Intelsat's Fleet -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) today announced that it has been selected by Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, to design, build and deliver the Intelsat-18 (IS-18)...
Orbital-Built AMC-21 Communications Satellite Successfully Launched
-- Spacecraft is Performing as Expected Early in Its Mission -- -- AMC-21 to Begin Several Weeks of In-Orbit Testing Prior to Commencement of Commercial Service -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB), the world's leading manufacturer of smaller-sized geosynchronous GEO communications satellites, announced today...
Orbital to Open New Southern California Engineering and Technology Center This Fall
-- Company to Tap Region's Space Technology Expertise, Monitor Local Suppliers and Support L.A.-Area Customers -- -- California-based Workforce to Expand to Over 150 Engineers, Technicians and Other Space Industry Professionals -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) is expanding its workforce in the Southern...
SAIC Awarded $19 Million Experimental Space Sensor Contract
Company to Deliver Sensor for Geo-Synchronous Satellite SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science Applications International Corporation today announced it has received a subcontract from Orbital Sciences to deliver a wide-field-of-view sensor. The sensor will be integrated onto a geo-synchronous satellite that Orbital...
Orbital Delivers NASA's IBEX Satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for Integration with Pegasus Launch Vehicle
-- Company-Built Interstellar Boundary Explorer Spacecraft to be Launched Aboard Pegasus Rocket from Kwajalein Atoll Near the Equator -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that the Interstellar Boundary Explorer IBEX satellite has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base VAFB, CA following the completion of...
IBEX Spacecraft Heads West, Takes Major Step Toward Launch
SAN ANTONIO -- NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer IBEX spacecraft, designed to image global interactions at the outer reaches of the solar system, today began its move to Vandenberg Air Force Base VAFB, Calif. The IBEX spacecraft was loaded into a truck at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Va., where engineers...
AMERICOM Government Services to Host U.S. Air Force Payload
MCLEAN, Va. -- Satellite solutions provider AMERICOM Government Services AGS announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to host an experimental sensor on board a commercial spacecraft. The three year $65 million firm fixed price contract was signed...
NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant Earth-Like Planets
3PAR ®(NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announcedtoday that NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage for amission that will send the Kepler SpaceTelescope into orbit around the Sun to find planets in solar systemsoutside our own. Set...
The Daily Record News Summaries: June 11, 2008
Constellation to restart plant Constellation Energy Group Inc., the biggest U.S. electricity marketer, said its restarting a Baltimore power plant thats been idle for five years to help meet growing energy demand in the mid- Atlantic region. The natural gas-fueled Gould Street Power...
SpaceDev Hardware Successfully Operates Aboard C/NOFS Mission
SpaceDev, Inc. (OTCBB: SPDV) announced today thatthe mechanical systems which the Company provided for the Air ForceResearch Laboratory Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System(C/NOFS) satellite have successfully operated on orbit. C/NOFS is aDepartment of Defense mission that will monitor the space environment andprovide warning of events that could affect Ultra...
Orbital Closes Sale of Transportation Management Systems Business to ACS
-- $43 Million Sale of Company's Non-Core Unit Completes Orbital's Strategic Refocusing on Its Satellite Systems and Launch Vehicle Businesses -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that it has completed the sale of its non-core Transportation Management Systems TMS unit to Affiliated Computer Systems...
Orbital to Present at Sidoti & Company's Fifth Annual Emerging Growth Institutional Investor Forum on June 3
DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that its Vice Chairman and CFO Garrett E. Pierce will make a presentation to investors and analysts during Sidoti & Company's Fifth Annual Emerging Growth Institutional Investor Forum to be held in Boston, Massachusetts. Orbital's presentation is scheduled to take place...
Members of Florida's Congressional Delegation Urge Orbital Science Corporation to Locate New Facilities at Cape Canaveral
Space Florida applauds delegation's crossing of party lines for the future of aerospace in the state and nation CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Following on a recent proposal from Space Florida on behalf of the state of Florida, today, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz D and Sen. Mel Martinez R,...
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- Incorporated: 1987
- CEO: Mr. David W. Thompson
Orbital Sciences develops and manufactures small rockets and space systems for commercial, military and civil government customers. Co.'s products include Launch Vehicles, such as rockets used for missile defense systems, small-class space launch vehicles to place satellites into Earth orbit, and suborbital launch vehicles to put payloads into high-altitude trajectories; Satellites and Space Systems, such as small- and medium-class spacecraft that are used to enable global and regional communications and broadcasting; and Transportation Management Systems, such as software-based transportation management systems for public transit agencies and private vehicle fleet operators.
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Orbital Sciences Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. David W. Thompson
Chairman
Mr. Robert M. Hanisee
Dr. James G. Roche Ph.D.
Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt Ph.D.
Mr. Scott L. Webster
Mr. James R. Thompson
Vice-Chairman
Mr. Garrett E. Pierce
Vice-Chairman
Dr. Edward F. Crawley Ph.D.
Dr. Lennard A. Fisk Ph.D.
General Ronald T. Kadish
Dr. Robert J. Hermann Ph.D.
Ms. Janice I. Obuchowski
Mr. Frank L. Salizzoni
Contact Information
21839 Atlantic Blvd
Dulles, VA
703 406-5000
