Article: Kazakhstan: Orbital-Built MEASAT-3a Communications Satellite Successfully Launched.

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Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB), the world s leading manufacturer of smaller-sized geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellites, announced today that the MEASAT-3a satellite, which is based on the company s STAR-2 platform, was successfully launched into orbit during a mission that took place on Sunday, June 21, 2009. Orbital designed, built, integrated and tested the MEASAT-3a spacecraft for MEASAT Satellite Systems of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The satellite was delivered into its initial orbit by a Land Launch Zenit-3 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosomodrome in Kazakhstan. Results from early tests of the satellite indicate that it ...

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