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Article: Orbital Selected by NASA for Major Long-Term Launch Services Contract.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- September 16, 2005
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DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation
-- NLS Contract for Pegasus and Taurus Small Launch Vehicles to
Extend Company's Manifest Into the Next Decade --
-- Company Estimates Total Value Could Exceed $200 Million Over
the Seven Year Contract Term --
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that it has been awarded a major contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide Pegasus(R) and Taurus(R) launch services for future NASA space missions over a seven-year period from 2005 to 2012. The contract was awarded under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) program, which allows ...