United Launch Alliance (ULA), the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that builds and launches Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets for government customers under the U.S. Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, is dealing with cost growth — driven in large part by a shrinking industrial base — that has left it open to criticism.
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Alexander Degtyrev, General Director, Yuzhnoye State Design Office
Ukraine’s principal space hardware designer, Yuzhnoye State Design Office of Dnepropetrovsk, is finally reaping the benefits from years of effort in trying to sell its expertise outside the former Soviet Union.
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David McGlade, Chief Executive, Intelsat
When private equity investors led by BC Partners and Silver Lake Partners purchased Intelsat in February 2008, it was a leveraged buyout that followed a similar transaction by Intelsat’s previous owners and left the world’s biggest satellite-fleet operator with $15 billion in debt.
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Wolfgang G. Biedermann, Chief Executive Officer, RapidEye AG
RapidEye AG of Germany appears to be testing new limits to how far a stand-alone company can go in commercial Earth observation without the security of a long-term government sponsor.
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Jean-Francois Gambart, President, London Satellite Exchange
The London Satellite Exchange (LSE) was started in 2000 as a commission-based brokerage matching mainly spot-market buyers and sellers of satellite capacity. It still does that, but its business has expanded well beyond its origins, especially since it was purchased, in transactions in 2006 and 2008, by Astrium Satellites and subsequently moved to Toulouse, France.
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Profile | Leonard R. Dest, Chief Executive, RD Amross
RD Amross sells one of Russia’s proudest aerospace achievements, the RD-180 rocket engine, to ULA for integration into the Atlas 5.
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Proton Accident Investigation Also Delays Rockot Launches
The launch of a European satellite to take precise measurements of Earth’s gravity field has been delayed by at least three months, to August, because its Rockot launch vehicle uses the same hardware that failed on a larger Russian Proton rocket in March. The satellite also may need to be placed into a different orbit because of the delay, program managers said here April 3.
