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An arbitration panel has ordered Sea Launch Co. to pay Hughes Network Systems (HNS) about US$52 million in connection with a terminated launch contract, Boeing said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange.
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The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a hearing on the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Weather Satellite System.
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MSV Appoints Vice President Of Enterprise Operations
Europe Moves Closer To Unified Space Policy
Glentel installs new satellite hub
Northrop Grumman Corporation (Aerospace) results Q2 2006
Integral demos CCS-C support of TCP/IP SLE protocol
BAE Systems-led team to work on Novel Satellite Communications
Worldspace Satellite Radio Reports Flattened Subscriptions
Update: Second German spy satellite launched

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Ukraine is interested in joining the European navigation satellite project Galileo and a co-operation on the Vega small launcher.
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Last New Horizons instrument operational
Iridium, Raytheon Offer Emergency Communications
Orbital Express satellites successfully separate, remate
SS/L gets contract for ChinaSat-8 modification
Monitor-E off again, Khrunichev director confirms
WGS satellite operations transitioned to CCS-C system
Anomaly I: Falcon 1 launch pushed back to February
Orbital Names Marcheto General Manager Of Space Systems Group

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Satellite export control rules are hampering U.S. national security and economic interests, and must be updated to protect the U.S. space industrial base, Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey said recently.

Inmarsat and Solaris Mobile, a joint venture between SES Astra and Eutelsat, are expected to be given 18-year rights to S-band radio spectrum in 27 countries across Europe, the Financial Times reports.
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WorldSpace, Inc. announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware approved the sale of substantially all of the assets related to the satellite radio business of it and its U.S. subsidiaries, WorldSpace Systems Corporation and AfriSpace, Inc. to Yenura Pte. Ltd.

The two European S-band licenses will tomorrow be awarded to the two European applicants, The Independent reports citing two senior industry sources.

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited announced that it “takes strong exception to the press statement by the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) regarding Ofcom’s intent to write to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on 17 March to ‘instruct that the ICO-P assignments currently recorded in the ITU Master Register be cancelled’.”