Orbital Sciences is also confident of getting the job done in a similar time-frame.
LauncherOne would look much like the current Pegasus system, which is operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Orbital Sciences survived by developing a new rocket launched from a far more reliable platform, a jumbo jet.
In 2008, NASA awarded contracts to deliver cargo to the International Space Station to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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The satellite itself and the rocket that carried it into orbit around Earth were built by Orbital Sciences Corp.
In fact, such a scheme already exists, and 20 cargo missions by two firms, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, are planned.
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The module will likely be launched by one of the agency's commercial cargo suppliers, California-based SpaceX or Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp.
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Orbital Sciences, best known for making satellites, hopes to carry out a much-delayed test of its Antares rocket in the coming weeks.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) will shortly test its new Antares rocket before undertaking its own ISS demonstration with a robotic vessel called Cygnus.
Baez and other officials from NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp.
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He heads the partnership between Orbital Sciences Corp. and Canada's Teleglobe, and he's aiming at the low end of the telecommunications market: things talking to things.
The battery-powered devices, about the size of a videocassette, use Global Positioning System technology to report where a trailer is (Orbital Sciences also owns Magellan, the largest producer of GPS receivers).
SpaceX and another company, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp.
Later this year two spacecraft, one which has been designed by Orbital Sciences, a Virginia-based firm, and another by SpaceX, a Californian company run by Elon Musk, an internet entrepreneur, will make cargo runs to the ISS. The hope is that such craft will soon be able to carry humans too, and at a far lower cost than NASA's efforts.
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