{"id":87184,"date":"2010-04-07T01:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-completes-general-dynamics-launch-subsidiary-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T01:57:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:57:42","slug":"orbital-completes-general-dynamics-launch-subsidiary-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-completes-general-dynamics-launch-subsidiary-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Completes General Dynamics Launch Subsidiary Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-06-10] <strong>Orbital Sciences Corp<\/strong>. completed its acquisition of <strong>General Dynamics\/Spectrum<\/strong> Astro, a spacecraft development and manufacturing business from <strong>General Dynamics<\/strong>, Orbital Sciences announced April 2.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Orbital will absorb about 325 new employees, mostly engineers, technicians and program managers with security clearances for U.S. government programs. Orbital has also acquired a 135,000-square-foot space systems manufacturing, integration and test facility.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBy combining Orbital\u2019s experience building industry-leading, small, low-orbit and geosynchronous satellites with General Dynamics\/Spectrum Astro\u2019s work on advanced, medium-class spacecraft, our company has now produced, or is currently developing, 148 satellites for over 35 separate customers in the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community, civil government agencies such as <strong>NASA<\/strong> and [the <strong>U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong>], and commercial communications and imaging satellite operators,&#8221; Orbital Chairman and CEO David Thompson said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Orbital, Aerojet Conduct Taurus 2 Engine Tests<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 16, 2010<br \/>\n[03-16-10] Orbital Sciences  and Aerojet have conducted a series of AJ26\/NK-33 rocket engine tests in  support of the development of Orbital\u2019s Taurus 2 space launch vehicle,  the companies announced March. 13.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Orbital Sciences to Acquire General Dynamics Satellite  Business<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 8, 2010<br \/>\n[03-08-10] Orbital Sciences  Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire the spacecraft development and  manufacturing business of General Dynamics subsidiary GD Advanced  Information Systems, Orbital Sciences announced March 4. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace Wins OHO-1 Contract<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 2, 2010<br \/>\n[03-02-10] OverHorizon has  contracted Arianespace to launch its first communications satellite,  OHO-1, on an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced Mar. 1.  The  deal with OverHorizon represents Arianespace s fourth launch\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-06-10] Orbital Sciences Corp. completed its acquisition of General Dynamics\/Spectrum Astro, a spacecraft development and manufacturing business from General Dynamics, Orbital Sciences announced April 2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Orbital will absorb about 325 new employees, mostly engineers, technicians and program managers with security clearances for U.S. government programs. Orbital has also acquired a 135,000-square-foot space systems manufacturing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}