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The following lists events that happened during 2001 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
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The following lists events that happened during 2001 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
| Position | Incumbent |
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| Grand Duke | Henri [1] |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Claude Juncker |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Lydie Polfer |
| President of the Chamber of Deputies | Jean Spautz |
| President of the Council of State | Raymond Kirsch (until 13 January) Marcel Sauber (from 15 January) |
| Mayor of Luxembourg City | Paul Helminger |
SES World Skies was a short lived company formed as a result of the merger between the two SES subsidiaries, SES Americom and SES New Skies. The company was merged into its parent company, SES in 2011.
SES S.A. is a Luxembourgish satellite telecommunications network provider supplying video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions.
Satcom, a portmanteau of satellite communications, was a brand of artificial geo-stationary communications satellites originally developed and operated by RCA American Communications that facilitated wide-area telecommunications by receiving radio signals from Earth, amplifying them, and relaying them back down to terrestrial receivers.
SES Americom was a major commercial satellite operator of North American geosynchronous satellites based in the United States. The company started as RCA Americom in 1975 before being bought by General Electric in 1986 and then later acquired by SES in 2001. In September 2009, SES Americom and SES New Skies merged into SES World Skies.
Denis Robert is a French investigative journalist, novelist and filmmaker. He formerly worked for twelve years for the newspaper Libération. Robert's books, films and press interviews, denouncing the opaque workings of the Clearstream clearing house, earned him into more than 60 lawsuits in France, Belgium and Luxembourg by banks, such as Bank Menatep and BGL, as well as the Clearstream company. In 2008, he was involved in a polemic with Philippe Val and journalist Edwy Plenel in relation to the Clearstream affair.
The following lists events that happened during 2005 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 2004 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 2003 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 2002 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 1999 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 1998 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 1997 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 1994 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Astra 5A was one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES at the Astra 31.5°E. Launched in 1997 to the 5° East position by NSAB as Sirius 2, operation of the satellite was transferred to SES in April 2008 and the craft renamed and moved to 31.5° East to open up a new orbital position for the company for the development of markets in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
SES Astra SA was a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that maintained and operated the Astra series of geostationary communication satellites between 2001 and 2011.
AMC-12 is an American geostationary communications satellite that was launched by a Proton-M / Briz-M launch vehicle at 02:27:32 UTC on 3 February 2005. The 4,979 kg (10,977 lb) satellite to provide voice and video services to the North America and South America, Europe, and Africa through separate beams to each region, after parking over the Atlantic Ocean through its 72 C-band transponders, over 37° West longitude.
