Orbital.com

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Orbital Sciences Corporation

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1980

Orbital founders Messrs. David Thompson, Bruce Ferguson and Scott Webster meet at Harvard Business School and work together on a NASA-sponsored study of commercial space applications

1983

Orbital signs an agreement with NASA for the company's first space product, the Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS) vehicle, after reaching a production agreement with Martin Marietta Corporation

The company obtains venture capital from Rothschild Inc. in New York, Brentwood Associates in Los Angeles and Northwest Bank in Minneapolis; it opens its first office in Vienna, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. with six employees

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