Optus D1 Spacecraft Is 10th Company-Built GEO Satellite Delivered in Last Five Years; Its Launch Marks the Beginning of Busy Deployment Schedule Through 2008 (Dulles, VA 16 October 2006) – Orbital ...

On Friday evening, October 13, Arianespace placed two satellites into geostationary transfer orbit: DIRECTV 9S for the US operator DIRECTV Inc., and OPTUS D1 for the Australian operator OPTUS. The ...

An Ariane 5 ECA launcher successfully placed the DirecTV 9S and Optus D1 satellites into orbit after an Oct. 13 launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. DirecTV 9S was built by Space ...

The first of Optus fourth generation satellites, D1, has been successfully launched and placed into a geostationary transfer orbit by an Arianespace rocket launched from French Guiana. Optus D1, built ...

The Optus D1 and DirecTV 9S communications satellites were successfully dual-launched by an Ariane 5 rocket on Oct. 13 at approximately 4:56 p.m. EDT, the fourth launch this year for the Ariane 5 from ...

Australian telecommunications satellite operator Optus has chosen Arianespace to orbit its D3 satellite. With a design life of 15 years the Optus D3 will be orbited by an Ariane 5 or a Soyuz launcher ...

Optus has announced that it D3 satellite, the ninth in a 24 year history of Australian domestic satellites, will be launched by Arianespace during August. Like Optus' D1, launched in October 2006, and ...

Australian telco Optus has chosen Arianespace and an Ariane 6 rocket to launch its latest satellite. Optus 11 is the craft, itself a replacement for Optus D1. Optus 11 is being built by Airbus Defence ...

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that the Optus D1 commercial communications satellite, built by Orbital for Optus Networks Pty Limited (Optus) of ...