AMC-9 Retirement Let

LETTER submitted by SES Americom, Inc.

AMC-9 Retirement Letter

2017-12-13

This document pretains to SAT-LOA-20020114-00008 for Application to Launch and Operate on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATLOA2002011400008_1314476

SatCom Law LLC 1317 F St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20004 T 202.599.0975 www.satcomlaw.com December 13, 2017 FILED ELECTRONICALLY Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Retirement of AMC-9 (Call Sign S2434), File Nos. SAT-STA-20170929-00138 et al. Dear Ms. Dortch: SES Americom, Inc. (“SES”), by its attorney, hereby advises the Commission that it has placed its AMC-9 spacecraft, call sign S2434, into a disposal orbit and asks that the Commission close the IBFS license account for this spacecraft. Deorbit maneuvers commenced on October 6, 2017, and final commands were sent on December 9, 2017. The disposal orbit has a perigee altitude of approximately 277 km above the geostationary arc and an apogee altitude of approximately 430 km above the geostationary arc. The eccentricity is approximately 0.001816516. In light of the satellite’s retirement, SES requests that the Commission terminate the license account for call sign S2434 in the IBFS database. Please address any questions regarding this matter to the undersigned. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Karis A. Hastings Karis A. Hastings Counsel for SES karis@satcomlaw.com cc: Jose Albuquerque Karl Kensinger Stephen Duall Kathyrn Medley


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