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billion contract to resupply the . Dulles-based Orbita (NYSE: ORB) held a ground-breaking ceremonty at ’s Wallops Flight Facility near Va. on Monday. The facility will be the launcjh sitefor Orbital’s new Taurus II rocket which will service NASA’s Commerciak Orbital Transportation Services program. Orbital announced in Decembet 2008 that it had won a contract to fly the resupplg missions which will beginin 2011. Undere the contact, Orbital is expected to deliver aboug 20 metric tons of cargo over the course of eighyt launches between 2011and 2015. The Taurus II, beinb developed under a joint programwith NASA, is expecterd to pass its final demonstration tests in late 2010.
The launchb facility construction and operation will be a significang source of employment for the lowerrEastern Shore. Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Justice and Science Appropriationes Subcommittee thatfunds NASA, said that construction will creatw 250 jobs and launch site operations will eventuallty bring 400 high-tech jobs to the Easterbn Shore by next year, according to a report from the Associates Press.
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