Commercial launch services are used to place satellites in their respective orbits. Launch services represent, by far, the most lucrative aspect of the launch-for-hire business. The European Space Agency (ESA), United States, Russia, People's...

International Launch Services (or ILS) was formed in 1995 as a private spaceflight partnership between the United States defense contractor Lockheed Martin (LM) (LM sold their part later) and the Russian firms Khrunichev State Research and Production...

HalfTel Communications Inc., a new Salt Lake City international callback service business, is hoping to launch in late July or early August of this year. The firm will be the U.S. sister company to WordSelect, a Japanese company offering the same type of...

The Internal Revenue Service has debuted the first of a suite of Internet-based business tools that give tax professionals and financial institutions easier access to client information. Known collectively as e-services, the suite of products provides tax professionals with new choices for...

An unmanned Russian rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite malfunctioned after liftoff Thursday, sending parts crashing in an uninhabited part of Kazakhstan and triggering concerns about environmental damage.Nobody was hurt, but it was a potential blow to Russia's program for commercial satellite launches.The Proton-M rocket...