Japan ranked first with US$95,604 million, whereas the USA and China ranked second (US$61,236 million) and third (US$41,368 million) (source: Reed Electronic Research 2005).
Its legacy is an unprecedented database with more than 200 million source measurements in far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), as well as wide-field imaging of extended objects, filling an important gap in our view of the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum.
NBCOlympics.com may have streamed 72 million videos and racked up 1.2 billion pageviews, but Yahoo Sports still edged it out with an average of 4.7 million visitors a day versus 4.3 million (source: Nieisen Online).
Talk about strategic value: In fewer than 90 days, daily bookings went from 350,000 per day to more than 5 million per day and passenger accounts went from 22 million to more than 100 million (source: TechinAsia).
Tar sands oil production forecast for 2015 (in barrels per day): 2.2 million (source).
Amount of wastewater leaking from tailing ponds every day (in gallons): 2.9 million (source).
