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Sea Launch Company L.L.C. and Sea Launch Limited Partnership and subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions to reorganise under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington.
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While selected components of the NPOESS programme have made progress over the past year, the programme is once again over budget and behind schedule, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a recently published report titled “Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making.”

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report that NASA’s commercial partners in the agency’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) project were making progress. However, both Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) and Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) recently experienced schedule slips that have delayed upcoming demonstration launch dates by several months.

ICO Global Communications plans to legally challenge a decision by the UK’s media regulator, Ofcom, which had recommended that the ICO-P assignments currently recorded in the ITU Master Register be cancelled.

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited said it was not involved in the filing for bankruptcy of its subsidiary DBSD North America, Inc., formerly known as ICO North America, Inc.
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ICO North America, a unit of satellite communications company ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Ltd, has filed for bankruptcy.

The European Commission announced that Inmarsat Ventures and Solaris Mobile were chosen to provide mobile satellite services (MSS) across Europe in the S-Band.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest from PlanetSpace Inc., which was challenging the award of two commercial contracts awarded by NASA to support the International Space Station (ISS).