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NASA’s GALEX Satellite Launched

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Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] successfully launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite April 28 aboard the company’s Pegasus rocket. The 312-kilogram (690-pound) GALEX scientific satellite, designed and built by Orbital at its Dulles, Va., satellite-manufacturing facility was delivered into its targeted orbit approximately 690 kilometers (420 miles) above the Earth and inclined at 29 degrees to the equator, company officials said.

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