Orbital Sciences Corporation is opening an engineering and technology center in Southern California to employ 30 to 40 rocket engineers in support of the Taurus II, a booster being designed to resupply the International Space Station and to be launched from Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in 2010.Orbital's California workforce, which includes employees at Vandenberg Air Force Base and NASA's Ames Research Center, will increase to about 150 people. Still, half of the company's employees -- roughly 1,700 people -- live and work in the Washington area, according to The Washington Post.
In June, the company announced that it would invest $45 million in Virginia to assemble, test and launch the Taurus II, adding about 125 jobs in Dulles and the Wallops Island launch site.
0 comments:
Post a Comment