? High-Throughout Ka-Band Commercial Satellite Ready For Launch Following
Completion of Pre-Flight Integration and Testing ?
? HYLAS 2 Will Bring Broadband Capability to Eastern and Southern Africa,
Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and Across the Caucuses ?
(Dulles, VA 01 August 2012) ? Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB),
one of the world?s leading space technology companies, announced today that
it is in final preparations for the launch of the HYLAS 2 communications
satellite for Avanti Communications Group PLC. Designed, manufactured and
tested at Orbital?s Dulles, VA satellite production facilities, the HYLAS 2
spacecraft will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French
Guiana on Thursday, August 2, 2012. The targeted launch time will be
during a nearly one-hour launch window that opens at 4:54 p.m. and closes
at 5:51 p.m. (EDT), subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing
activities, as well as acceptable weather conditions at the time of the
launch.
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Following its launch and several weeks of in-orbit testing and systems
verification, the satellite will be placed into commercial service from its
final geosynchronous orbit position, providing data and video services to
Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and across
the Caucuses.
?HYLAS 2 introduces a new market application for Orbital?s commercial
communications satellites, bringing broadband communications into the range
of space systems we offer our customers,? said Mr. Christopher Richmond,
Orbital?s Senior Vice President of Communications Satellites. ?The HYLAS 2
spacecraft is one of the most sophisticated commercial satellites we have
ever built and we are looking forward to putting it to work for our Avanti
customer.?
About HYLAS 2
The state-of-the-art smaller-size satellite is based on Orbital?s proven
GEOStar-2 platform. It carries 24 active Ka-band user beams and six
gateway beams and will produce approximately 5.0 kilowatts of payload
electrical power. The Ka-band spot beams on the HYLAS 2 will provide
two-way communications services to facilitate high-speed delivery of data
to end-user applications such as corporate networking, broadband Internet
access, business continuity services and video distribution. The spacecraft
will be equipped with a steerable spot beam, also operating at Ka-band,
which can provide coverage anywhere on Earth that is visible to the
satellite.
Orbital designed, built and tested the HYLAS 2 spacecraft at the company?s
satellite manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia.
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