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Export Sales and Major Customers (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Export Sales and Major Customers [Abstract]

Orbital’s revenues by geographic area, as determined by customer location, were as follows (in thousands):

	Years Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
United States	$	1,035,090	$	1,084,131	$	1,020,722
Europe		146,623		102,106		72,955
Mexico and South America		131,240		93,855		—
East Asia and Australia		32,970		14,485		31,618
Total	$	1,345,923	$	1,294,577	$	1,125,295

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Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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