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  2. Orbital Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Orbital Corporation Limited (ASX: OEC), formerly Orbital Engine Corporation Limited pioneered by Ralph Sarich, is an Australian company based in Balcatta, Western Australia, that aims to provide clean engine technologies and alternative fuel systems with reduced environmental impact from gas emissions and improved fuel economy.

  3. Tyvak - Wikipedia

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    In 2022, Terran Orbital company, the company that owns Tyvak, entered public stock market through a SPAC merger. At the time it was announced that the name Tyvak would be phased out and the focus of the whole company (that is, both Tyvak and Terran Orbital) would be transitioned into larger satellites from nanosats and cubesats. [1]

  4. Orbital Sciences Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In 1997, Orbital acquired CTA, Inc, a company that, under the spacecraft design engineering and business leadership of Tom van der Heyden – designer of the GEOStar spacecraft – had designed and built the first geostationary "lightsat" under contract to Indonesia for Asia's first Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) television broadcast program ...

  5. Orbcomm - Wikipedia

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    The ORBCOMM low Earth orbit (LEO) system was conceived by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) in the late 1980s. In 1990, Orbital filed the world's first license application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the operation of a network of small LEO spacecraft [5] to provide global satellite services of commercial messaging and data communications services via the company's ...

  6. Above: Space Development Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Above: Space Development Corporation (formerly Orbital Assembly Corporation) [1] is an American aerospace company that has announced several widely publicized plans to build various space stations. As of 2024 [update] , no funding for the projects has been announced and construction of the stations has not started.

  7. Orbital - Wikipedia

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    Orbital Corporation, an Australian engine technology company Orbital Sciences Corporation , a U.S. satellite launch and defense systems corporation Orbital ATK , American aerospace manufacturer formed from the merger of Orbital Sciences Corporation and parts of Alliant Techsystems

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

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    The satellite based on Orbital's flight-proven STAR-2 platform and generates approximately five kilowatts of payload power for 36 active transponders. [20] Upon completion of in-orbit testing, operational control of the satellite was handed over to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Communications and IT, and since October, 2017 Azercosmos OJSCo controls ...

  9. Minotaur V - Wikipedia

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    Minotaur V is an American expendable launch system derived from the Minotaur IV, itself a derivative of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, an intercontinental ballistic missile.It was developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation, (now absorbed into Northrop Grumman) and made its maiden, and to date, only flight on 7 September 2013 carrying the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer ...