The shadow of Stalin continued to loom large over Poland after the war, when the communist-dominated government ensured that Poland would become a Soviet satellite state for the next 40 years.
Georgia, a small country that was once part of the Soviet Union and still considered by The Kremlin as a satellite state, was the only serious opposition to Russia joining the WTO.
She also stated that the US intends to actively pursue better relations with Iran's Arab satellite-state, Syria.
Later, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces bombed the Libyan state satellite-television facility, which NATO said was being used to incite attacks on civilians.
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Similarly, the minister of information said it was time to consider inviting private investment in broadcast media, then made it clear that the offer was limited to satellite programming under firm state censorship.
Missouri's Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, was present at the first shovel turning and the state paid for a satellite truck to beam images of the ceremony to every resident of the state who wanted to see it.
Fortunately, Congress returned the satellite licensing authority to the State Department from the Commerce Department.
Some activists say a case can be made that Iran is using state-media satellite transmissions to trample dissent.
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In a separate development on Monday, the leading European satellite provider Eutelsat took 19 Iranian state-run television and radio channels off air on Monday, citing "reinforced EU Council sanctions".
The video, posted on August 16, has been watched more than 121, 000 times, according to YouTube, hinting at the allure of jihad in a war constantly broadcast on both private and state-run Arabic satellite channels.
Although, as the Cox report says, China has been enjoying pretty unrestricted access to America for 20 years and in Republican and Democratic administrations alike, it was under Mr Clinton that the programme of official military exchanges was revived, and that supervision of export sales of satellite technology was removed from the State Department to the far laxer Commerce Department.
In the recent state elections, Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi used 3D holographic technology and satellite link-ups to address a wider audience during his state election campaign.
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".
Mato Grosso state has pioneered the use of satellite-mapping to enforce a law that obliges Amazonia's landowners to leave 80% of forested land untouched.
Satellite television and the Internet have punctured old state information monopolies.
Above all, a revolution in satellite television has broken the spell of the state-run media and created a public that wants the rulers to explain and justify themselves as never before.
With 19 state-of-the-art satellite dishes, the faith-based and family-themed broadcaster can download more than 50 cable-television channels and deliver them potentially to hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide.
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The pan-Arab satellite television networks -- so different from the sclerotic state broadcasters -- gave Arabs a new window on the world.
Yet the conflict sharpened between the state broadcasting monopoly and those foreign-based satellite channels that the government accuses of fomenting unrest since the elections.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
State media say the lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT).
Satellite TV has freed them from the venomous distortions dished out by the state-run networks in both countries.
You remember seeing the satellite how big that storm was and how close it was to the state of Florida?
The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said.
To be sure, the PRC -- which is said to have discovered these "state-of-the-art, " "satellite- activated" listening devices within a month of the plane's delivery last September -- is putting out the word that the bugs were discovered when they began emitting static during flight trials.
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Under a fifth of Egyptians now get their news from state television, while more than half follow the al-Jazeera satellite channel (whose crews were repeatedly harassed during the election).
Robert Twiggs, formerly from Stanford but now at Morehead State University in Kentucky is one of the fathers of the small cheap satellite.
Before 1999, when the State Department took over the export regulation of satellites, America dominated commercial satellite-making with an average market share of 83%.
The results were reached via global positioning satellite measurements taken before and after the February 27 quake by teams from The Ohio State University, the University of Hawaii, the University of Memphis and the California Institute of Technology, as well as agencies across South America.
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