As Control Design celebrates its 15th anniversary, each month we bring you a look back at some of the events and developments that shaped technology during that time. In November, China became a member of the World Trade Organization, Google acquired YouTube, and Microsoft's Kinect was launched everywhere.
Nov. 1, 1998: Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.
Nov. 5, 1999: A 12-day conference on global warming, attended by delegates from 170 nations, ended in Bonn, Germany.
Nov. 10, 2001: The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
Nov. 16, 2004: A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.
Nov. 13, 2009: NASA announced that water had been discovered on the moon.