21.   Other powerful Chinese state enterprises also had multibillion-dollar stakes in getting access to American satellites.

22.   Over the past decade, China became a valued partner of American satellite companies seeking to control costs with inexpensive launchings aboard Chinese rockets.

23.   One of the beneficiaries of that decision, it now turns out, was China Aerospace because its rockets could launch American satellites.

24.   President Reagan first approved the launching of American commercial satellites on Chinese rockets.

25.   Realistically, American satellites are not in great physical danger today.

26.   Russia is the only nation that currently possesses the technology to effectively attack American satellites in orbit, but Moscow lacks the money and motivation to do so.

27.   Right now, launches of American satellites on foreign rockets are limited by quota agreements with each country.

28.   Siding with his fellow Cabinet members, John Manley, the minister for industry, pointed out that Canadian cable companies use American satellites.

29.   Some type of construction at the site was easily detected by American satellites.

30.   The Canadian satellite industry, aggrieved at having to compete with pirated American signals, won a ruling that it was illegal for Canadians to watch American satellite television.