Globally, there are 1.5 billion adults who are either overweight or obese, a number expected to increase to 3 billion by 2030. The epidemic is reaching catastrophic proportions, and one of the key-if small- steps to bringing it under control is to have a common language to describe the problem.
The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1. It was the size of a basketball and was made by the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) or Russia. It was launched on October 4, 1957.
The earliest US satellites were launched byâ¦ the military, such as the US Army's Ballistic Missile Agency (Explorer I, January 31, 1958) and the US Navy's Project Vanguard (Vanguard I, March 17, 1958). NASA was involved in a string of unsuccessful launch attempts, notably the Beacon series.