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Boeing focuses on boosting space launch business, BUSINESS TIMES

Business Times (Malaysia), June, 2001 by Fauziah Ismail

Business Times (Malaysia) 06-12-2001 SPACE and communications is a US$10 billion (US$1 = RM3.80) enterprise for the Boeing Co. Its 43,000 employees are involved in the operating of the Space Shuttle, building the International Space Station, overseeing the US' missile defense and reconnaisance systems and creating new satellite- based information and communications services.

Anchored by a stable commercial and civil space launch business that includes the reliable Delta family of rockets and Sea Launch program, Boeing Space and Communications is also National Aeronautics and Space Administration's largest contractor for all US human spaceflight efforts. Following the acquisition of the Hughes Space and Communications Co and related operations, the group...

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