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...It was a success and since 2012, the agency has relied on SpaceX and the US aerospace and military group Orbital ATK to resupply the ISS....
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...After manoeuvring both new and existing satellites into a new orbital position, Planet’s constellation of 21 SkySats will then be able to take photographs with up to 50cm resolution, allowing it to make...
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...Dealing with orbital debris is another area of co-operation that Japan and the US are examining....
...Earlier this year, US defence contractor General Dynamics agreed to acquire IT and cyber security group CSRA for $9.6bn and defence group Northrop Grumman agreed to buy rival Orbital ATK for $9.2bn....
...Image source: Orbital ATK...
...Northrop has previously said that its $9.2bn acquisition of Orbital ATK will prove accretive to free cash flow in the first full-year after the deal closes....
...The one-day premium to Orbital ATK’s stock price was a mediocre 22 per cent. Yet the purchase price is more than double where Orbital traded when it was formed less than three years ago....
...Citigroup is acting as exclusive financial adviser to Orbital ATK and Hogan Lovells US LLP is its legal adviser....
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...Last month Northrop said it would pay $7.8bn in cash for rival Orbital ATK and assume $1.4bn in net debt amid a recent wave of consolidation in the aerospace industry....
...However, this doesn’t reflect the pending acquisition of Orbital ATK, which is expected to close in the first half of the year....
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...Northrop, one of America’s big defence contractors, bought specialised aviation and space contractor Orbital ATK for $9.2bn, including debt....
...Balfour motors ahead “Better late than the M25,” joke drivers who fear that once on the orbital motorway, there’s little chance of getting off, writes Kate Burgess. But not Balfour Beatty....
...Northrop Grumman is the latest to join the fray after it agreed to acquire rival missile maker Orbital ATK for $9.2bn on Monday, including $1.4bn in net debt....
...In the past satellites could only be built and launched by multibillion-dollar companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin — one of the world’s biggest defence contractors — and Orbital Sciences Corporation....
...Its customers include the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, geo-analytics company Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs, a crop production forecaster....
...An Orbital ATK’s Cygnus space craft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to go to the International Space Station as seen from Viera in Brevard County...
...Compare this with Orbital, which was valued around $2bn before its merger with ATK late last year. SpaceX says it is profitable and has positive cash flow....
...With its Antares rocket still unable to fly, Orbital ATK — Orbital Sciences’ new owner — has arranged for ULA to undertake its next launch of cargo to the ISS some time later this year....
...Ronald Grabe, an executive of Orbital ATK, the company that operated the October 28 flight, said two weeks ago that the explosion appeared to have resulted from excessive wear in one of the Antares rocket...
...ATK will first spin-off its firearms operation to shareholders. The remaining defence business will then combine with Orbital, with ATK shareholders owning 54 per cent of the new company....
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