51.   India has launched satellites into space, built ships and aircraft, tested successfully medium-range missiles and established a solid industrial base.

52.   Industry experts, however, say prices will stabilize soon, once more satellites are launched.

53.   Iridium is also using Russian and Chinese rockets to get all its satellites launched before next September.

54.   Iridium, by contrast, had to build a network of ground stations and launch its satellites into orbit.

55.   It also rejects allegations in the Cox report that China had stolen American technology on launching satellites from sites in China where satellites were launched.

56.   It makes components for the planned Iridium phone system, an ambitious plan to launch satellites for global cellular phone service.

57.   It launched satellites that provide advance warning of ballistic missile attacks and transmit messages to military units.

58.   It has been used more than two dozen times to launch satellites into space.

59.   It is considered possible that North Korea tried to launch a satellite as part of a missile test but that the satellite malfunctioned.

60.   Launching so many satellites would be prohibitively expensive.