101.   These formulas are important to designing nuclear missiles and launching satellites that do not explode or break apart.

102.   They hope that the success of the trip will blunt congressional hearings into decisions by the Clinton administration to permit U.S. companies to launch satellites on Chinese rockets.

103.   This important agreement was reciprocated by a Clinton administration decision to make it easier for American companies to launch satellites on Chinese rockets.

104.   This will allow American companies to apply again for licenses to launch satellites on Chinese rockets.

105.   To do so, it had to launch satellites into orbit, at huge cost.

106.   Until recently, foreign companies were willing to trade reliability for price to launch satellites in China.

107.   Under federal export rules, U.S. companies are supposed to take careful precautions to safeguard classified technology when their satellites are launched by Chinese rockets.

108.   Which raises the question of why anyone needs to launch a satellite to collect more data about all of this.

109.   While competitors like Boeing and Rockwell Collin are developing similar systems, they need to launch new satellites or build new antennas to do so.

110.   While pursuing its own space program, China has maintained a profitable business using its rockets to launch commercial satellites from other countries, including the United States.