On 21 October 2011 the first two of four operational satellites were launched to validate the system.

On 7 January 2010, it was announced that the contract to build the first 14 FOC satellites was awarded to

On July 29, 1955, the White House announced that the U. S. intended to launch satellites by the spring of 1958.

On communications satellites which carry broadcast television networks and radio networks, this is known as multiple channel per carrier or MCPC.

On July 2, 1967, at 14: 19 UTC, the Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature.

On 4 May 2007, an Ariane 5-ECA rocket set a new commercial payload record, lifting two satellites with a combined mass of 9. 4 tonnes.

On 29 July 1955, James C. Hagerty, president Dwight D. Eisenhower's press secretary, announced that the United States intended to launch " small Earth circling satellites " between 1 July 1957 and 31 December 1958 as part of their contribution to the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ).

On May 25, 2007 the U. S. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell authorized the National Applications Office ( NAO ) of the Department of Homeland Security to allow local, state, and domestic Federal agencies to access imagery from military intelligence satellites and aircraft sensors which can now be used to observe the activities of U. S. citizens.

On March 5, 1979, a few months after the successful dropping of satellites into the atmosphere of Venus, the two Soviet spacecraft that were then drifting through the Solar System were hit by a blast of gamma ray radiation at approximately 10: 51 EST.

It was followed up in 1771 by a noteworthy dissertation, On the inequalities of light of the satellites of Jupiter.

On the contrary, most scientists now accept the fact that actual observations from earth satellites show no climate warming whatsoever.

* On February 5, 2003, India's Prime Minister announced that the meteorological series of satellites, " METSAT ", will be renamed as " KALPANA ".

On October 21, 2011 two Galileo IOV-1 & IOV-2 satellites were launched using a Soyuz-ST rocket, in the " first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe ’ s Spaceport in French Guiana.

On December 17, 2011 another Soyuz was launched from Kourou carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

On the same day, the Agrarian League released a statement to the press that attacked Schleicher as " the tool of the almighty money-bag interests of internationally oriented export industry and its satellites " and accused Schleicher of " an indifference to the impoverishment of agriculture beyond the capacity of even a purely Marxist regime ".

On STS-80, ( November 19 to December 7, 1996 ), the crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility ( WSF ) and the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer ( ORFEUS ) satellites.

On board the Nimbus satellites are various instrumentation for imaging, sounding, and other studies in different spectral regions.

On September 22, 2004, the FCC fined Viacom the maximum $ 27, 500 ( US ) penalty for each of the twenty CBS-owned television stations ( including satellites of WFRV in Green Bay, WCCO in Minneapolis, and KUTV in Salt Lake City ; current CBS owned-and-operated station KOVR in Sacramento at the time was owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group ) for a total $ 550, 000 fine, the largest ever against a television broadcaster at that time.

On Dec. 15, 1995 the V band at 60 GHz was used by the world's first crosslink communication between satellites in a constellation.

On July 2, 1967, at 14: 19 UTC, the Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature.

On June 1, 1998 the control and maintenance of the satellites were transferred to NOAA in order to reduce costs.

On the other hand, if it is brightly coloured like the neighbouring moon Miranda, it would be even smaller than Cupid and comparable to the smallest outer satellites.

On Harmony, the colonists established the Oversoul-an artificial intelligence, monitoring the planet with a small army of satellites.

On some amateur radio satellites, amateurs using these modes can expect reception distances of up to around.

`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.

On each side of the motor well there's storage for battery, bumpers, line and spare props with six-gallon gas tanks below.

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

On the following pages, each of the major commercial foamed plastics is described in detail, as to properties, applications, and methods of processing.

On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie.

On the third Wednesday in March each year ( near the spring equinox ), three quarters of Dutch schoolchildren aged 10 / 11 and Dutch celebrities plant trees.

On this day, aiding the fight against desertification, each Nigerien plants a tree.

On a more abstract level, model theoretic arguments hold that a given set of symbols in a theory can be mapped onto any number of sets of real-world objects — each set being a " model " of the theory — providing the interrelationships between the objects are the same.

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

On the other hand, the number of prospective heirs can grow quite large, since each share potentially can be divided between daughters.

On each deal, each side is said to be either vulnerable or not vulnerable depending upon whether or not it has previously won a game ; if it has, the side is said to be vulnerable ; if it has not, it is said to be not vulnerable.

On July 19, 2007, the Iles Eparses entry and redirects for each island were dropped due to the group becoming a district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in February.

On the average, at least twice each decade houses, farms, and harbor facilities are devastated by these great storms.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

On June 4, 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums, each of which is of national importance: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

On cleavage by trypsin into two parts that are still connected via an S-S bond, cleaved chymotrypsinogen molecules can activate each other by removing two small peptides in a trans-proteolysis.

On one hand, Compaq struggled to compete in the PC market with the Dell Computer Corporation, which sold directly to buyers, avoiding the dealer channel and its markup, and built each machine to order to keep inventories and costs at a minimum.

On 16 May 1968 a parachute brigade of two regiments ( each of three battalions ) was formed which eventually was to grow in size to a full division.

On this diagram the work that is generated for each cycle corresponds to the area within the loop.

On such networks, each network link contains one or more DHCP relay agents.

On making the last pass, each dancer makes a whole turn on the end, bearing right if the last pass was by the right shoulder or left if last pass was by the left, and reenters the figure returning to place.

On each of the last three of these missions, astronauts also performed deep-space EVAs on the return to Earth, to retrieve film canisters from the outside of the spacecraft.

On the last occasion that the Estates-General had met, in 1614, each estate held one vote, and any two could override the third.