Orbital To Build Explorers

Fresh off its first successful flight with the new Antares liquid-fueled medium-lift rocket (see page 16), Orbital Sciences Corp. has won contracts to build two Explorer-class scientific spacecraft, one to search for extra-solar planets and the other to study how atmospheric and space weather...

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