The following year, a conference was held in which all of the European powers except Austria-Hungary ( by now little more than a German satellite ) sided with France.

Adenauer in 1952 ; he forged close ties with France and the U. S. and opposed the Soviet Union and its satellite of East Germany

* 1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

* November 26 – At the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.

international: 5 submarine cables ; microwave radio relay to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia ; coaxial cable to Morocco and Tunisia ; participant in Medarabtel ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean ), 1 Intersputnik, and 1 Arabsat

In the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793 – 1815, France reduced the Netherlands to a satellite and finally annexed the country in 1810.

Under his mother's regency Savoy, despite being a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was closely linked to and heavily dependent upon France, essentially becoming a French satellite.

), Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy ( Rome ) and the ability to provide connectivity to locations worldwide via fiber and satellite links.

The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, Press TV, DW-TV, France 24 and Russia Today, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world.

In France such a supporting satellite farm, often a replica on a reduced scale of the mother house, was a doyenné, which is to say, a " deanery " under the local guidance of a dean.

France, eager to turn Mexico into a satellite state, searched for a suitable figurehead to serve as the nominal emperor of Mexico.

The High Energy Transient Explorer ( abbreviated HETE ; also known as Explorer 79 ) was an American astronomical satellite with international participation ( mainly Japan and France ).

* KBS World Radio-international service also RFI ( France ) | RFI, BBC World Service and Radio Canada International, as well as satellite and international services.

With the successful launch of Dongfanghong I, China became the fifth country after the Soviet Union, United States, France, and Japan to independently launch a satellite.

The extinction of the Kingdom of Majorca was inevitable in the international context of the age characterized by different conflicts: the Hundred Years War, between France and England, the war of the benimerines, which involved Castile and the Crown of Aragon, and the attempts to make the Balearics a satellite state by the Genoese.

During the Nazi occupation of France ( 1940 – 44 ), the franc was a satellite currency of the German Reichsmark.

Array of four axial-mode helical antennas used as a satellite tracking-acquisition antenna, Pleumeu-Bodou, France

Italy and France are cooperating on the deployment of the dual-use Orfeo civilian and military satellite system.

Orfeo is a dual-use ( civilian and military ) earth observation satellite network developed jointly between France and Italy.

The Confederation of the Rhine, and the other satellite creations of Napoleonic France, sought to establish economic autonomy in European trade.

Since then, France 5 broadcasting hours have been extended to 24 hours a day ( initially available only on cable and satellite, and since spring 2005 on air within the new digital broadcasting multiplex " R1 " network that supports all national public TV channels and that will replace the existing equivalent analog broadcast channels ).

In early 1939, the British Embassy in Paris was bombarded with a series of reports that public opinion in France was highly dejected and demoralized, and that unless Britain made the " continental commitment " ( unequivocally linking British security to French security and committing to sending a large British Expeditionary Force to France like the one ultimately sent in World War I ), the French would resign themselves to becoming a German satellite state.

Conventional telecommunications links between continental France and its overseas departments will also be supplied.

The telecommunications in Jersey relate to communication systems in the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France.

Customs, postal services, telecommunications, and banking in Monaco are governed by an economic and customs union with France.

* Orange ( telecommunications ), a multinational telecommunications subsidiary of France Telecom

France Telecom S. A. is a French multinational telecommunications corporation in France, the largest in Europe and second largest in the world.

Then, in 1944, the National Centre of Telecommunications Studies ( CNET ) was created to develop the telecommunications industry in France.

France Télécom also revealed the NeXT scheme deployment that aimed at providing its customers with an integrated set of telecommunications services.

The leading industrial sectors in France are telecommunications ( including communication satellites ), aerospace and defense, ship building ( naval and specialist ships ), pharmaceuticals, construction and civil engineering, chemicals, textiles, and automobile production.

Orange is a French multinational telecommunications corporation and represents the flagship brand of the France Telecom group.

As of 31 December 2010, Orange has 150 million mobile customers worldwide, 17. 9 % of whom are in France40. Orange France is the leading mobile telecommunications operator in France, with a market share of 45. 38 % as of 2 November 2009.

Other hardware components were supplied as follows: the beam-combining mirror from REOSC at Saint Pierre du Perray ; the spherical, folding and relay mirrors from Carl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen ; the external straylight baffles from CASA in Madrid ; the modulating grid from CSEM in Neuchatel ; the mechanism control system and the thermal control electronics from Dornier Satellite Systems in Friedrichshafen ; optical filters, the experiment structures and the attitude and orbit control system from Matra Marconi Space in Velizy ; instrument switching mechanisms from Oerlikon-Contraves in Zurich ; the image dissector tube and photomultiplier detectors assembled by the Dutch Space Research Organisation, SRON in The Netherlands ; the refocusing assembly mechanism designed by TNO-TPD in Delft ; the electrical power subsystem from British Aerospace in Bristol ; the structure and reaction control system from Daimler-Benz Aerospace in Bremen ; the solar arrays and thermal control system from Fokker Space System in Leiden ; the data handling and telecommunications system from Saab Ericsson Space in Gothenburg ; and the apogee boost motor from SEP in France.

Wanadoo changed to Orange on June 1, 2006 to simplify branding by France Télécom: this merging of companies has created a single brand offering mobile telecommunications and internet services.

Communications companies France Telecom and La Poste are relics of the state postal and telecommunications monopolies.

In 1983, CGE helped to found Canal +, the first Pay-TV channel in France, and in the 1990s, they began expanding into telecommunications and mass media, especially after Jean-Marie Messier succeeded Guy Dejouany on June 27, 1996.

Later he went to École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne and Universite de Bretagne Occidentale in France, where he studied telecommunications engineering and received a doctoral degree in 1993 for a dissertation titled " Systematic recursive convolutional codes and their application to parallel concatenation.

In the United States, Canada, Central and South America, France 24 is represented by the American telecommunications company New Line Television, headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Orange SA is a wholly owned subsidiary of the French telecommunications giant France Telecom.

The Lindbergh operation was a complete tele-surgical operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France ( over a distance of several thousand miles ) using telecommunications solutions based on high-speed services and sophisticated surgical robotics.

Lannion is a large telecommunications research center in France with several firms such as Alcatel-Lucent, Orange France Telecom and SAGEM operating there.

In 1983, CGE helped to found Canal +, the first Pay-TV channel in France, and in the 1990s, they began expanding into telecommunications and mass media, especially after Jean-Marie Messier succeeded Guy Dejouany on June 27, 1996.