ITT’s defense business was flat in 2009, but space-related revenue grew by nearly 8 percent, driven primarily by the company’s work on the GPS satellite navigation system, where it provides the main payloads, and on classified programs.

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Warren Ferster is the Editor-in-Chief of SpaceNews and is responsible for all the news and editorial coverage in the weekly newspaper, the spacenews.com Web site and variety of specialty publications such as show dailies. He manages a staff of seven reporters...