1.   Both have launch vehicles for nuclear missiles, both make spy satellites and both have advanced military electronics systems.

2.   Companies that once made spy satellites for U.S. spy agencies began making equipment for cellular networks that served China or Russia.

3.   Lockheed and Loral both make satellites.

4.   Lockheed makes satellites, while Northrop Grumman makes satellite parts.

5.   Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Maryland, will make the satellites at its Astro Space division in East Winsdor, New Jersey.

6.   The satellite is made by the Hughes Space and Communications division of General Motors Corp.

7.   These include a sonar manufacturing company and Matra Marconi Space, which makes satellites.

8.   To make satellites, remove tomato cores.

9.   Alcatel said it was making the satellites for the GE Starsys system of General Electrics American Communications Inc.

10.   Russian and French schoolchildren helped make the satellite under the guidance of Russian space officials, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.