Amendment

0705-EX-PL-2015 Text Documents

Spire Global, Inc.

2016-01-19ELS_171705

Hogan Lovells US LLP Columbia Square 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 T +1 202 637 5600 F +1 202 637 5910 www.hoganlovells.com January 19, 2016 Via Electronic Filing Experimental Licensing Branch Office of Engineering and Technology Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: Spire Global, Inc. ELS File No. 0705-EX-PL-2015 To Whom It May Concern: Spire Global, Inc. (“Spire”) hereby amends the above-referenced experimental application seeking authority from the Office of Engineering and Technology (“OET”) to deploy four satellites from the International Space Station (“ISS”) as part of Spire’s Lemur-2 satellite system. The satellites were scheduled to be delivered to the ISS as cargo aboard a Falcon-9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”), the contracting party for the primary payload for the Falcon-9 launch, has requested that Spire reschedule the satellite delivery to a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch scheduled for March 10, 2016. Attached to this amendment is a letter from NASA to NanoRacks, LLC, the party with whom Spire has contracted for the delivery of the Lemur-2 satellites to the ISS, requesting that those satellites be moved from the Falcon-9 launch to the Atlas V launch. By this filing, Spire amends its application to reflect NASA’s requested change. Because the Spire satellites will still be deployed from the ISS, there are no changes to the proposed orbital characteristics of the satellites. Further, the radiofrequency characteristics of the four satellites (e.g., transmit power, out-of-band emissions, antenna patterns and gain, and transmit and receive frequencies) will remain the same. However, with respect to the coordination of this application with NTIA, the response to inquiry 1B of the NTIA coordination form may need to be revised to reflect the ministerial change of the launch vehicle from Falcon-9 to Atlas V. Specifically, the response to inquiry 1B should be as follows (the black-line edits reflect the changes): “Falcon-9Atlas V: ORB, 51.6IN00400AP00400PE001.60H04NRT01.” Hogan Lovells US LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in the District of Columbia. “Hogan Lovells” is an international legal practice that includes Hogan Lovells US LLP and Hogan Lovells International LLP, with offices in: Alicante Amsterdam Baltimore Beijing Brussels Caracas Colorado Springs Denver Dubai Dusseldorf Frankfurt Hamburg Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City Hong Kong Houston Johannesburg London Los Angeles Luxembourg Madrid Mexico City Miami Milan Minneapolis Monterrey Moscow Munich New York Northern Virginia Paris Perth Philadelphia Rio de Janeiro Rome San Francisco São Paulo Shanghai Silicon Valley Singapore Sydney Tokyo Ulaanbaatar Warsaw Washington DC Associated offices: Budapest Jeddah Riyadh Zagreb. For more information see www.hoganlovells.com

Marlene H. Dortch -2- January 19, 2016 If there are any questions regarding this application, please contact the undersigned. Very truly yours, /s/ Trey Hanbury Partner trey.hanbury@hoganlovells.com D 202-637-5534 Attachment

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 2101 NASA Parkway Houston, Texas 77058—3696 January 14, 2016 Reply to Attn: of: OZ—16—002 Jeffrey Manber NanoRacks, LLC 550 Forge River Road, Suite 120 Webster, TX 77598 Dear Jeffrey: We recently completed a cargo manifesting optimization study for the SpaceX8 and Orbital/ATK 6 launches and have determined it is best to launch the Nanoracks Cubesat Deployers and the respective Cubesats (Dove and LEMUR—2) on OA6 instead of SpaceX8. This move ensures that OA6 has a full cargo complement. Note that OA6 is now planned to launch prior to SpaceX8. We are working with our Spectrum Management organization to develop a strategy to preclude amending licenses for future launch vehicle changes and will communicate these findings with you as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience to you or your teams. Please call me if you would like to discuss further at 281—483—9122. Sincerely, Marybeth Edeen Manager, ISS Research Integration ge: OZ/M. Surber OZ/A. Lopez, OZ/S. Huning Marcia Blount NanoRacks, LLC 550 Forge River Road, Suite 120 Webster, TX 77598


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