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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...

    Earnings calls 2008-07-17

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  • 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...

    Earnings calls 2008-04-21

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  • 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...

    Earnings calls 2008-03-31

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  • 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...

    Earnings calls 2007-10-18

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Additional Resources

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-09-18

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-09-01

  • 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)...

    Articles 2008-08-21

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-08-18

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-08-05

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-08-05

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-07-30

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-07-25

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-07-08

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-06-30

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-06-11

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-06-09

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-06-02

  • 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...

    Articles 2008-06-02

  • 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,...

    Articles 2008-05-23

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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

http://www.orbital.com

703 406-5000

NAICS Code

Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing: 334220
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