Russia survived the fall of communisim and the shedding of dozens of satellite states.
In a period lasting through nine American presidencies, the Soviets and their satellite states were formidable adversaries.
The country has used its satellite states of Syria, Sudan and Qatar, as well as its burgeoning alliances with Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and elsewhere, to legitimize its rapidly escalating assaults on Sunni regimes throughout the region.
There are demands for a write-off, as well as for Russia's debts to the West to be offset by notional loans made long ago to Soviet satellite states such as Vietnam, or by the energy debts accumulated more recently by nearby countries such as Ukraine.
TV, the biggest firm in the business (owned by Hughes Electronics, itself a subsidiary of General Motors) merged with United States Satellite Broadcasting.
After its 1999 acquisition of United States Satellite Broadcasting Co.
Opened via satellite by former United States President Bill Clinton, this two-day event was organized by UNESCO organized together with the Government of the United Arab Emirates, Varkey GEMS Foundation and the Commonwealth Business Council.
Iceberg A-43 was detected using the United States Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Optical Linescan Sensor on 5 May.
In addition, senior economic officials will be doing regional satellite time into key targeted states in advance of the vote.
North Korea said the rocket was designed to carry an observation satellite, though the United States, South Korea and Japan said it was a cover for a long-range ballistic missile test.
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And rather than wait for Nitel to deliver a high capacity link to connect him and his customers to the backbone of the internet, he has opted for a direct satellite link to the United States.
The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said.
DirecTV is the second largest pay-TV service provider after Comcast and the largest direct broadcast satellite service provider in the United States.
What the Reagan administration did do to aid the war effort of Iraq was to share key battlefield intelligence, intelligence gleaned from satellite photos own by the United States with the Iraqis.
While key manufacturing technologies might be protected, it would be foolish to believe that this arrangement will not give rise to significant compromises in a number of areas of satellite technology in which the United States currently predominates.
The GOES-13 satellite, which is also known as GOES East, launched into space in 2006 and was responsible for tracking weather systems across the eastern United States while another GOES satellite monitored the country's western regions, according to NASA records.
The United States has said that the satellite did not reach orbit.
It should be noted that China has broken with Europe's Galileo navigation satellite program and will loft its own 30 satellite constellation to compete with the United States, Russian and European NavSat Systems.
Further, similar to the period after the launch of the Sputnik satellite in October, 1957, the United States is in a global race that depends on mathematics and science skills.
And after the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, the United States went about winning the Space Race by investing in science and technology, leading not only to small steps on the moon but also to tremendous economic benefits here on Earth.
As he describes the Clinton team's evolution from relative impotence in Bosnia during its early months to dynamic involvement in 1995, Mr Halberstam gives a sympathetic hearing to the foreign-service officers who protested strongly because America seemed to be condoning Serb atrocities, about which the United States, with its signal and satellite intelligence, was uniquely well informed.
In the latter regard, the United States must deploy an effective anti-satellite system at the earliest possible moment.
The Chinese military destroyed an aging weather satellite last year, prompting questions about whether the United States is merely flexing its muscle to show an economic and military rival that it can destroy satellites, too.
Mr. Reich was born and raised in Cuba, but when Fidel Castro established a Soviet satellite dictatorship there, he and his parents came to the United States as refugees.
Despite the fact that we were crossing some of the most desolate terrain in the United States, we had access to hundreds of channels of satellite radio, turn-by-turn navigation, and voice communication to anywhere in the world.
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In December, North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket for the first time under what the United States and other Western nations say was the guise of putting a satellite into orbit.
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Nourished on conspiracy theories, anti-Semitic and anti-American myths for more than a generation, the Arab and Muslim world believes that Israelis a satellite of the U.S. Whether they believe that Israelcontrols the United States or that Americacontrols Israel, the conspiracy-mongers who control Arab and Islamic political perceptions believe that an Israeli defeat is an American defeat.
The Center for Security Policy commends the United States Navy for Wednesday's successful shoot-down of a failing spy satellite that could have posed a threat to human health and American national security had it fallen to earth.
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Even assuming one could craft a verifiable ban, for example, on anti-satellite weapons (which appears altogether unlikely), if such an accord rendered the United States unable to neutralize hostile spacecraft in time of war, it would not be consistent with our national security requirements.
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But the United States is "prepared to offer assistance to governments to mitigate the consequences of any satellite debris impacts on their territory, " according to a report of Rocca's remarks on the Web site of the Geneva office of the U.N.
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