XM Dec. 7 filing.pdf

LETTER submitted by XM Radio Inc.

Letter/Notification

2010-12-07

This document pretains to SAT-LOA-20090217-00025 for Application to Launch and Operate on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATLOA2009021700025_855483

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December 7, 2010


By Electronic Filing

Ms. Marlene H. Dortch
Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554

Re:              Operational Status of XM-5, File No. SAT-LOA-20090217-00025 (Call Sign S2786)

Dear Ms. Dortch:

XM Radio Inc. (“XM Radio”), by its attorneys, hereby advises the Commission that pursuant to
authority granted in the above-referenced proceeding the XM-5 in-orbit spare spacecraft has been
positioned at its assigned orbital location of 85.2° W.L. and was available for service effective
December 2, 2010. Accordingly, pursuant to the terms of the XM-5 authorization, the initial license
term for XM-5 runs through December 2, 2018.1

Please address any questions regarding this matter to the undersigned.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Karis A. Hastings

Karis A. Hastings

Counsel for XM Radio Inc.
karis.hastings@hoganlovells.com
D +1.202.637.5767

cc:          Stephen Duall
             Kathyrn Medley
             Jay Whaley




1
    See File No. SAT-LOA-20090217-00025 (Call Sign S2786), grant-stamp dated Aug. 31, 2009 at
     ¶ 7 (specifying that the eight-year license term for XM-5 begins on the date XM Radio certifies that
     the satellite has been successfully launched and put into operation).
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