The resumption of work on a key U.S. military satellite ground station in Italy is good news for the program, whose timetable for full-operational capability was threatened by the six-month stoppage. Construction of the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground station in Nis-cemi, on the island of Sicily, was halted earlier this year after concerns over the health effects of electromagnetic radiation in the surrounding area sparked a wave of popular protests that led Sicily's governor to revoke the building permit. That order was later reversed by an Italian court based in part on studies indicating that the facility posed no unusual hazards.
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