31.   China Orient Telecom Satellite Co. is joining Lockheed in the project and will launch the satellite, administration officials said.

32.   Critics also charge that China made illegal campaign donations and that Clinton improperly allowed a Democratic donor to use Chinese missiles to launch a satellite.

33.   Cutting the cost of launching small satellites could encourage more launches which could in turn bring the price down further.

34.   EchoStar is planning to launch two satellites next year to increase its channel capacity.

35.   Eight Deltas will launch five satellites while Russian and Chinese rockets will launch the other vehicles.

36.   For American companies, the benefit will be resumption of license applications to launch American satellites on Chinese rockets.

37.   For starters, no company has ever proposed launching so many satellites in such a short time.

38.   Getting money to build and launch the satellites was, in retrospect, too easy.

39.   Guyana is close to the equator, which is the best place to launch satellites into geostationary orbit above the equator.

40.   Grounding the space shuttle program also took the United States out of the business of launching commercial satellites for more than a year.