Orbital’s Minotaur IV rocket debuts, conducting three successful missions launching seven satellites into orbit and boosting one suborbital hypersonic technology payload
The company receives contracts for two GEO commercial communications satellites, Azerspace/Africast-1 and MEXSAT-3; and successfully launches the Intelsat 16, SES-1 and KOREASAT-6 spacecraft
Orbital acquires Gilbert, Arizona-based satellite development and manufacturing unit from General Dynamics, adding 250 employees and 135,000 square feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities
Orbital’s Pegasus and Taurus rockets are selected to launch the IRIS and OCO-2 satellites for NASA
The company makes significant progress in the manufacture and testing of its new Antares medium-class rocket and Cygnus spacecraft programs to provide cargo delivery services to the International Space Station.
2011
The company successfully conducts a total of four Minotaur launches (two Minotaur I and two Minotaur IV) from three different launch sites, extending the Minotaur family's 100% success rate
The Dawn planetary spacecraft arrives at the asteroid Vesta and begins scientific investigation after a nearly four year 1.7 billion mile journey to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
Orbital delivers four GEOStar-2 satellites to major global customers - Intelsat 18 and Intelsat New Dawn and SES-2 & -3. SES-2 features the CHIRP hosted payload for the US Air Force
NASA awards the ICESat-2 satellite contract to Orbital. Scheduled for launch in 2016 the satellite will measure the topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and the thickness of sea ice.
The company makes significant progress on its Antares (formerly Taurus II) medium-class launch vehicle and its new launch pad and processing facilities at Wallops Island, Virginia
Orbital completes the integration of its first Cygnus cargo resupply spacecraft and begins testing in advance of its first mission scheduled for 2012
