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Orbital Completes Work On NSS-9 Commercial CommSat
Dulles VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2008 Orbital Sciences has completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite. Orbital's engineering team completed all pre-shipment procedures late last week for the NSS-9 satellite, which will be stored at the company's Dulles, VA facilities until the company is notified of the launch date. Orbital stated that the spacecraft was designed, manufactured and tested in approximately 22 months from the start of the contract to the completion of the pre-shipment review. "We are very pleased to be able to complete the NSS-9 spacecraft on such an efficient production schedule," said Mr. Michael Larkin, Orbital's Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Space Systems Group. "Utilizing the lean manufacturing techniques and other efficient production and testing processes that we have implemented, the NSS-9 satellite program displays the kind of responsiveness to our customers' needs that our team is capable of delivering to maintain our industry-leading delivery schedule." Based on Orbital's STAR-2 satellite bus, NSS-9 carries 28 active C-band transponders and features three beams that can be interconnected on a transponder-by-transponder basis: a global beam providing coverage of the entire earth visible from its 183 degrees East longitude orbit slot, another beam covering Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Korea and the Pacific Islands, and a third beam providing coverage and connectivity to the U.S., Hawaii and Polynesia. Orbital's geosynchronous-orbit (GEO) commercial communication business remains robust, with four new orders so far this year, including the AMC-1R satellite for SES Americom, the Koreasat-6 satellite for KT Corporation (in partnership with Thales Alenia Space), and the IS-18 satellite for Intelsat. Excluding NSS-9, Orbital currently has ten other commercial communications satellites in various stages of design and production for launches between 2009 and 2010. Two other Orbital-built GEO satellites were launched this year, THOR 5 for Telenor of Norway and AMC-21, the first of five satellites ordered by SES Americom. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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