Moving On Up… At Orbital Sciences Corporation

Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has promoted Mr. Michael E. Larkin to the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Space Systems Group (SSG). He was previously Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager of SSG since 2006 and served in a variety of progressively more responsible assignments since joining Orbital in 1994. He has been Acting General Manager of SSG since December 2007. SSG responsibilities include design, production and operation of commercial communications and broadcast satellites, scientific and environmental research spacecraft, and selected national security space systems. The group also provides space-related scientific, engineering and manufacturing services to U.S. government laboratories and aerospace companies. Mr. Larkin joined Fairchild Space and Defense Corporation in 1980 and held a variety of program and financial management positions with Fairchild until its acquisition by Orbital in 1994. He was awarded a B.S. degree from West Virginia University and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University—Dulles, Virginia