1.   Demand has been so feverish that the company has a backlog of unfilled orders for commercial satellites.

2.   Instead the company is jumping headlong into the commercial satellite business.

3.   At present, Landis said, photos snapped from airplanes are generally of better quality and detail than those available from commercial satellites for non-military use.

4.   -- Arianespace Chairman Charles Bigot, discussing competition in commercial satellite launching.

5.   After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the agency contracted with a commercial satellite company to help provide maps of the country.

6.   After the Challenger, its business surged, aided by sharp business tactics and generous government financing, and it now dominates the worldwide business of launching commercial satellites.

7.   All these problems have taken some of the bloom off the commercial satellite business, which has only recently surpassed the government-owned satellite market in size.

8.   Allen Ashby was named president of Sea Launch, an international partnership that will provide commercial satellite launch service from a seagoing platform.

9.   But American Mobile Satellite Corp., a consortium that operates the lone commercial geostationary satellite over the United States, has dragged its feet, Noreen said.

10.   But commercial satellite projects under development also plan to use frequencies in the same range.