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Orbital Selected by NASA to Build New Space Science Satellite to Study X-Ray Polarization

Business Wire - Wed Jul 8, 2:01 pm ET

DULLES, Va.----Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design, manufacture, integrate and test a new low-Earth orbit space science satellite that will study X-ray polarization in space.