Boeing capital: a new source for funding: BCC has total assets of $8 billion, while its equity holdings have been held down to $1 billion. (Industry report: the re-making of Boeing).
Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC)was established as a new, wholly-owned business unit of the Boeing Company on 30 October 2000, under president James Palmer, who was already a senior VP and a member of Boeing's Executive Council. Palmer was to report directly to chairman Phil Condit. Created at the same...

Syncom 3: dropping the first shoe.
Demonstration of the space shuttle's capability as a satellite service truck has been a gradual affair, even if the reason has been in part that many satellites are out of reach of the shuttle's love-altitude orbits. Yet the work carried out on the Syncom 3 communications satellite during the...

Globecomm Systems and GE Americom Enter Into Broad-Based Cooperation Agreement.
Agreement Represents Globecomm's Commitment to Next Generation Transoceanic Satellites HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Globecomm Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: GCOM) announced today that it has established a broad cooperative agreement with GE American Communications (GE Americom) that will provide facilitated access to each...

Tidying up in the space sector.
A large part of Europe's prime contractorship work in the space field is handled by EADS member companies, but not all under the EADS banner. The reason for the EADS/Astrium split in space manufacturing lies in the composition of Astrium, which was finally constituted in May 2000...

Reining in the weather: in this age of killer hurricanes, monster tornadoes, and ravaging floods, taking the edge off weather extremes has never been so vital.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not far from the Dead Dog Saloon, behind a body shop on the main street of Grantsville, Utah, stands a rusting, four-foot-tall metal box. The box sits atop a tank of gaseous silver iodide that, when fired up, sends a plume downwind toward the nearby...

Sea Launch Assesses Status and Plans for Next Steps.
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the unsuccessful launch of the NSS-8 spacecraft on January 30, and subsequent safing of all systems, Sea Launch is now in the process of securing the Odyssey Launch Platform and taking initial measures to determine the root cause and implement necessary...

Ball Announces 2006 Results.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Corporation today reported full-year 2006 net earnings of $329.6 million, or $3.14 per diluted share, on sales of $6.62 billion, compared to $272.1 million, or $2.48 per diluted share, on sales of $5.75 billion in 2005. Fourth quarter 2006 net...

Top 100 science stories of 2007: environment.
ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 China's Syndrome Tainted products and choking pollution spark anxiety across the globe. Over the past three decades, China has emerged as an economic colossus, becoming the world's source of cheaply manufactured exports. In 2007, numerous reports of contaminated...

The evolution of China's military policy and military doctrine.
As is known, the role of any State on the international arena is predetermined by its economic and military power, the level of its scientific and technological development, its resources, its geopolitical and geostrategic position, the size and quality characteristics of its population, the orientation of its foreign, domestic,...

From the shadows to the stars: James Webb's use of intelligence data in the race to the moon.
Intelligence collection has become a hot topic in the wake of September 11 and the invasion of Iraq, and some of the most scalding discussion is over the release of intelligence information to the media. There is no clear and distinct rule about how intelligence information becomes public. Sometimes...