Orbital Opens New Satellite Factory On Dulles Campus

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Orbital Opens New Satellite Factory On Dulles Campu s

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Orbital Science Corporation has completed a new 125,000 square foot state-of-the-art factory, located at Dulles, Virginia, which will house all of the company's satellite manufacturing, assembly and testing activities.

The Satellite Manufacturing Facility includes a 40,000 square foot “high-bay” that will house a full suite of environmental test equipment used to simulate the rigorous conditions of a satellite's launch sequence and its operation in space. The facility will also has two large “clean rooms,” totaling over 25,000 square feet, in which satellites are kept during assembly, integration and check-out phases. A new satellite command and control ground station for Orbital's Orbimage affiliate's imaging satellites will be incorporated into the complex later this year, which will include office space for engineers, technicians and administrative staff who will work in the building.

Among the satellite programs that Orbital now has under way at other facilities that will be moved to the Dulles facility is N-Star C, a GEO mobile communications satellite platform, scheduled for launch in 2002, for NTT DoCoMo. Among near-term LEO satellite projects to be built in the factory include several scientific spacecraft for NASA, including SORCE and QuickTOMS, as well as up to 15 additional Orbcomm satellites.

Orbital has recently completed, at their 70-acre Dulles campus, two new 90,000 square foot buildings containing office, laboratory, administrative and employee amenity space. An additional 160,000 square foot office building now under construction is scheduled for completion in 2001.

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May 8, 2000