Satellite News

The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) said it will ask the International Telecommunication Organisation (ITU) to cancel the assignments for ICO’s non-geostationary satellite system (ICO-P).

TerreStar Europe Limited, a European mobile communications provider and an indirect, majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation, announced that it has submitted a filing to the European Commission certifying that it had complied with the Critical Design Review milestone of the Pan-European 2GHz MSS S-band selection and spectrum authorisation process.
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An amendment to the European Commission/ESA GMES agreement was signed by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry.

PlanetSpace has filed with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) a protest to the selection decision of NASA under the ISS Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) competition.
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The Spanish government has authorised Abertis Telecom to acquire another five percent of the shares of Hispasat.

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited announced that the Los Angeles Superior Court has entered judgement on the verdict the company received in its litigation against Boeing and its Boeing Satellite Services International subsidiary.
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Elbit Systems Ltd. has signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) with respect to all claims relating to ImageSat International N.V.
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Vietnam’s deputy prime minister Nguyen Thien Nhan issued instructions providing that Vietnamese telecommunications companies would be given priority to use certain geostationary slots.
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