For the past five years, the market has been stagnant. Everybody has been looking around and saying, is this what the industry is becoming? Or is it just part of a cycle, a temporary lull...

The Model is a kind of gauge that we use to help us detect trends in the market. Either we are seeing a real increase in the number of space systems being proposed or we...

We’ve been launching an average of just over 15 large commercial satellites annually during the past three years, and we expect this level to remain about the same in 2006.

All the sudden, you have these new visions for space exploration, and there’s renewed excitement.