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  • August 1997
  • Case

Orbital Sciences Corporation: ORBCOMM

By: Das Narayandas and John A. Quelch
In late 1993, Orbital Communications Corp. (OCC), a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp., is developing a global two-way wireless data communications system, called "ORBCOMM," based on a 26-satellite constellation in low earth orbit. Service is scheduled to begin in... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Business Startups; Price; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Salesforce Management; Telecommunications Industry
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  • May 1990 (Revised August 1990)
  • Case

Orbital Sciences Corp. (E)

By: William A. Sahlman
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  • April 1986 (Revised February 1989)
  • Case

Orbital Sciences Corp. (A)

By: William A. Sahlman and Howard H. Stevenson
Keywords: Aerospace Industry
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Orbital Sciences Corporation: ORBCOMM TN

By: Das Narayandas
Teaching Note for (9-598-027). View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Industry
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  • June 1995
  • Case

Orbital Sciences Corp.: Pegasus Launch Videotape

By: John A. Quelch
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  • February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Astroscale, Space Debris, and Earth's Orbital Commons

By: Matthew Weinzierl, Angela Acocella and Mayuka Yamazaki
An engineer and technology entrepreneur, Nobu Okada, had turned a mid-life crisis into a bold—some would say quixotic—quest to prevent a tragedy of the commons at the global scale. Namely, Okada believed the accumulation of debris in near-Earth orbital space posed a... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Global Range; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Economics; Aerospace Industry
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  • 1983
  • Other Unpublished Work

Orbiting Space Observatory - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Decision Making; Air Transportation; Science; Air Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

program management is critical is related to decisions that maximize the performance of the system as a whole, but involve trade-offs at the individual project level. For example, it is far more effective for an orbiter to relay signals... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
  • 31 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

yet. In addition to the Blue Origin case, Weinzierl and his research associate Angela Acocella have written and taught a second case: “Astroscale, Space Debris, and Earth’s Orbital Commons.” That case focuses on how a technology being... View Details
Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

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