SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No. 9
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Common Stock
Cusip #685564106


Cusip #685564106
Item 1:	Reporting Person - FMR Corp.
Item 4:	Delaware
Item 5:	3,469,620
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	4,625,112
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	4,625,112
Item 11:	7.577%
Item 12:	    HC


Cusip #685564106
Item 1:	Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4:	United States of America
Item 5:	0
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	4,625,112
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	4,625,112
Item 11:	7.577%
Item 12:	IN




	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)




Item 1(a).	Name of Issuer:

		Orbital Sciences Corporation

Item 1(b).	Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:

		21700 Atlantic Boulevard
		Dulles, VA  20166


Item 2(a).	Name of Person Filing:

		FMR Corp.

Item 2(b).	Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:

		82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts  02109

Item 2(c).	Citizenship:

		Not applicable

Item 2(d).	Title of Class of Securities:

		Common Stock

Item 2(e).	CUSIP Number:

		685564106

Item 3.	This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G).  (Note:  See
Item 7).

Item 4.	Ownership

	(a)	Amount Beneficially Owned:	4,625,112

	(b)	Percent of Class:	7.577%

	(c)	Number of shares as to which such
person has:

	(i)	sole power to vote or to direct
the vote:	3,469,620

	(ii)	shared power to vote or to
direct the vote:	0

	(iii)	sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of:	4,625,112

	(iv)	shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of:	0



Item 5.	Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.

	Not applicable.

Item 6.	Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.

	Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the Common Stock of Orbital Sciences Corporation.
No one person's interest in the Common Stock of Orbital
Sciences Corporation is more than five percent of the total
outstanding Common Stock.

Item 7.	Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.

	See attached Exhibit A.

Item 8.	Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.

	Not applicable.  See attached Exhibit A.

Item 9.	Notice of Dissolution of Group.

	Not applicable.

Item 10.	Certification.

	By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in the
ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.

Signature

	After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement
is true, complete and correct.

February 12, 2007
Date

/s/Eric D. Roiter
Signature

Eric D, Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997 by and on behalf of FMR Corp. and
its direct and indirect subsidiaries


	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)



	Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G,
Fidelity Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-
owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 1,155,492 shares or 1.893%
of the Common Stock outstanding of Orbital Sciences
Corporation  ("the Company") as a result of acting as
investment adviser to various investment companies registered
under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 1,155,492 shares owned by the Funds.

	Members of the family of Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR Corp., are the predominant owners, directly
or through trusts, of Series B shares of common stock of FMR
Corp., representing 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp.
The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders
have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Series B shares will be voted in accordance with the
majority vote of Series B shares.  Accordingly, through their
ownership of voting common stock and the execution of the
shareholders' voting agreement, members of the Johnson
family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of
1940, to form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.

	Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR Corp., has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.

	Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC ("PGALLC"), 53 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, an indirect wholly-
owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 3,385,000 shares or 5.546%
of the outstanding Common Stock of Orbital Sciences
Corporation as a result of its serving as investment adviser to
institutional accounts, non-U.S. mutual funds, or investment
companies registered under Section 8 of the Investment
Company Act of 1940 owning such shares.

	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its
control of PGALLC, each has sole dispositive power over
3,385,000 shares and sole power to vote or to direct the voting
of 3,385,000 shares of Common Stock owned by the
institutional accounts or funds advised by PGALLC as
reported above.

	Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company ("PGATC"),
53 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as defined
in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is
the beneficial owner of 84,620 shares or 0.139% of the
outstanding Common Stock of the Orbital Sciences
Corporation as a result of its serving as investment manager of
institutional accounts owning such shares.

	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its
control of Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company, each has
sole dispositive power over 84,620 shares and sole power to
vote or to direct the voting of 84,620 shares of Common Stock
owned by the institutional accounts managed by PGATC as
reported above.



	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
	RULE 13d-1(f)(1)  AGREEMENT

	The undersigned persons, on February 12, 2007, agree
and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the
Common Stock of Orbital Sciences Corporation at January 31,
2007.

	FMR Corp.

	By /s/ Eric D. Roiter
	Eric D. Roiter
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney dated
December 30, 1997, by and on behalf of FMR Corp. and its
direct and indirect subsidiaries

	Edward C. Johnson 3d

	By /s/ Eric D. Roiter
	Eric D. Roiter
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney dated
December 30, 1997, by and on behalf of Edward C. Johnson
3d

	Fidelity Management & Research Company

	By /s/ Eric D. Roiter
	Eric D. Roiter
	Senior V.P. and General Counsel

	Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC

	By /s/Mike Howard
	Mike Howard
	Senior Vice President
	and Chief Financial Officer
	Duly authorized under Board of
	Directors resolution dated
	September 26, 2005.