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.
Manufactured by Lockheed in Sunnyvale, California, the KH-11 was the first American spy satellite to use electro-optical digital imaging, and create a real-time optical observation capability.