Corporate Announcements

DULLES, Va., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) has awarded the company a $5 million contract for a ballistic missile target launch vehicle to ...

DULLES, Va., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has decided to postpone the launch of its High Energy Spectroscopic Imaging (HESSI) satellite ...

DULLES, Va., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that BSAT-2b, the second of three geostationary (GEO) satellites that the company plans to deliver to customers in 2001, has been shipped to its launch site ...

DULLES, Va., Jun 15, 2001 /PRNewswire/ --- Taiwan's National Space Program Office to Launch Environmental Monitoring Satellite Aboard Enhanced Version of Company's Ground-Launched Booster - Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that ...

DULLES, Va., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that Mr. Robert D. Strain has been appointed Executive Vice President and General Manager of the company's Space Systems Group (SSG). Previously the head of ...

DULLES, Va., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that the launch of its Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic (HESSI) satellite has been postponed. Orbital is supporting a ...

DULLES, Va., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it is preparing to launch the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) X-43A "Hyper-X" research aircraft on June 2, 2001. The X-43A will ...

DULLES, Va., May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it has completed the sale of 12.35 million shares of its MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd. subsidiary (Toronto: MDA) for approximately $112 ...

DULLES, Va., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with Thales Group to sell the company's Magellan Corporation majority-owned subsidiary and its interest in ...

DULLES, Va., May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected the company for two contracts, totaling approximately $53 million in value, as part ...