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The United Arab Emirates’ Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) granted Al Yah Advanced Satellite Communications Services a ten-year satellite services license, and Star Satellite Communications Company a ten-year satellite and broadcasting services license, both effective as of 8 July 2010.
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ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited announced that it received an unfavourable ruling in the judicial review proceedings that it initiated against Ofcom, the British telecommunications regulatory authority.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has approved the Sea Launch Plan of Reorganisation. Sea Launch Company LLC filed the Plan on 10 May in preparation for its emergence from Chapter 11.
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The U.S. military has stopped publishing tracking data for France’s working spy satellites – hardly a coincidence.

The European Galileo satellite navigation project needs financing of EUR1.5 billion (US$1.85 billion) on top of the already budgeted EUR3.4 billion, Le Monde reported.
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