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Orbital Selected For Azerspace/Africasat-1a Satellite

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Monday, June 7th, 2010

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Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] recently announced that it has signed a contract with International Relations and Accounting Center of The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies (Ministry) of the Republic of Azerbaijan to design, build and deliver the Azerspace/Africasat-1a commercial communications satellite. "The new contract with Azerbaijan represents the tenth commercial communications satellite order in the past two years for our Star satellites, demonstrating continued strong market demand and customer acceptance of our satellite platform and supporting ground services," Michael…

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