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Monday, September 8th, 2008

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Intelsat Chooses Orbital Sciences To Build Satellite Intelsat Ltd. selected Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] to design, build and deliver the Intelsat-18 (IS-18) commercial communications satellite. The satellite will be based on the Orbital STAR-2 platform and will generate approximately 4.9 kilowatts of payload power. It will carry 24 C-band transponders to cover the Northern and Southern hemispheres and 12 Ku-band transponders to provide services to the United States, French Polynesia, Australia, New Caledonia and other Pacific Islands. Following its launch…

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Pentagon

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