Finance

Dollars And Sense: The Launch Industry--The High Price Of Preserving The Bottom Line

July 01, 2003

by Carissa Bryce Christensen Should Europe and the United States be spending billions to protect a launch industry that cannot make it commercially? Painfully, the answer is yes. The launch...

Finance

Dollars And Sense: Satellite Launchers--Will The Financial Clouds Ever Clear The Launch Pad?

February 01, 2003

by Chris Mecray Two of the major U.S. satellite launch providers, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, have just completed $1.5 billion in investments in upgraded launch vehicles (not including government development...

Finance

Launching To Space: Maintaining A Business In Challenging Times

January 01, 2003

By James Careless Arguably, buying a rocket these days just got more interesting. With the virtual disappearance of the non-geosynchronous (NGSO) market and a cyclical downturn in geosynchronous (GSO) launches,...

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