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GMD Boost Vehicle

GMD Program Overview

Under the initial Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) contract, Orbital modified Pegasus,
Taurus, and Minotaur system designs to develop the OBV, and verified its
performance and operational features through a series of test flights that began
in early 2003. In early 2012, Orbital was awarded major subcontracts from
Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corporation under the GMD Development and
Sustainment Contract (DSC), which will extend Orbital’s involvement in the GMD
program through 2018. Under DSC, Orbital will develop significant tactical avionics
upgrades for the OBV, deliver additional tactical boosters for upgraded GBIs,
and provide Operations and Sustainment support for the fleet of 30 operational
interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Orbital has completed development of a two-stage variant of the baseline three-stage
OBV which provides GMD with a capability to engage a broader range of threats. The
two-stage OBV was successfully verified in a flight test in 2010. In all, there have been
eleven successful flight tests of the two- and three-stage OBV configurations through
2013 which demonstrate both the performance of the OBV as well as the ability of
GMD system elements to work together as an integrated system.

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Orbital's Flight-Proven Heritage

Orbital’s GMD Boost Vehicle is derived from the company’s flight proven small space
launch vehicles.

GMD Boost Vehicle Flight Test –

Eleven Launches, Eleven Successes

Pegasus

OSP Minotaur

Taurus

Taurus Lite

BV-6

FT-1

BVT-1

FTG-03A

FT-2

FTG-06

FTG-05

IFT-13b

FTG-06a

CTV-01

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