Attachment Exhibit A SAT-MOD-20141212-00129

Attachment Exhibit A

This document pretains to SAT-MOD-20141212-00129 for Modification on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATMOD2014121200129_1071075

EXHIBIT
A

FCC
Form
312

Application
of
Yazmi
USA,
LLC

for
Modification
of
License

Call
Sign
S2367

December
2014

NARRATIVE
STATEMENT

Yazmi
USA,
LLC
("Yazmi"),
the
licensee
for
the
AfriStar
satellite
(hereinafter
referred

to
as
"AfriStar-‐1"),
Call
Sign
S2367,
currently
operating
at
21º
East
Longitude
("E.L."),

hereby
requests
that
the
Commission
modify
the
AfriStar-‐1
license
by
extending
the
license

term
for
AfriStar-‐1
from
January
6,
2015
to
and
through
April
15,
2021.

Grant
of
the

requested
extension
will
enable
Yazmi
to
continue
to
utilize
AfriStar-‐1
to
provide
service
to

its
customers
for
the
remainder
of
the
satellite’s
useful
life,
and
thus
is
in
the
public

interest.

The
authorization
for
AfriStar-‐1
was
granted
initially
to
AfriSpace,
Inc.
(“AfriSpace”)

on
December
17,
1999
(IBFS
File
Nos.
SAT-‐LOA-‐19900723-‐00002
and
SAT-‐AMD-‐
19990125-‐00016).

On
January
6,
2000,
AfriSpace
certified
to
the
Commission
that
the

authorized
satellite
was
on
station
and
in
conformity
with
the
authorized
terms
and

conditions.1

This
certification
initiated
a
ten-‐year
license
term
that
was
automatically

extended
to
fifteen
years
by
the
Commission’s
2003
Space
Station
Licensing
Reform

decision
in
IB
Docket
No.
02-‐34.

Yazmi
acquired
the
satellite
licenses
initially
held
by

AfriSpace
–
including
the
license
for
AfriStar-‐1
–
in
2010.2

Satellite
Health:

Telemetry,
tracking,
and
command
(“TT&C”)
functions
for
the
AfriStar-‐1
satellite
are

currently
being
performed
from
Intelsat’s
primary
East
Coast
Operations
Center
in
Tysons

Corner,
Virginia
and
the
redundant
West
Coast
Center
in
Long
Beach,
California.

Health

Status
reports
are
published
monthly
and
combined
into
Semi-‐Annual
and
Annual

Reports.

The
most
recent
Semi-‐Annual
Operations
Report,
covering
the
period
January
1st

through
November
30th,
2014,
indicates
that
all
satellite
subsystems
are
fully

functional.

The
reported
solar
array
power
degradation
is
about
1%
from
last
year,
which

is
consistent
with
the
expected
natural
degradation
of
the
solar
cells’
performance.

Inclined
Orbit
Operation
and
End-‐of-‐Life
Considerations:

Yazmi
intends
to
cease
north-‐south
station-‐keeping
at
the
end
of
March,
2015,

thereby
extending
the
satellite’s
useful
life
through
April
2021.

Yazmi
will
provide
the

1

See
Letter
dated
January
6,
2000,
from
T.
Giunta,
Counsel
for
AfriSpace,
to
Secretary,
FCC,
in
File
No.
SAT-‐

19990723-‐00002.

2
AfriSpace,
Inc.
Debtor-‐in-‐Possession,
Consent
to
Assignment,
Radio
Station
Authorization,
File
No.:
SAT-‐ASG-‐

20100604-‐00123
(granted
July
29,
2010).

Commission
notice
of
this
change
in
the
manner
specified
in
Section
25.280
of
the

Commission’s
Rules
at
the
appropriate
time.

Yazmi
intends
to
follow
the
U.S.
Government
Standard
Practices
guidelines

regarding
post-‐mission
disposal
of
space
structures,
and
the
more
recent
FCC
Order
on

Orbital
Debris.

Specifically,
Yazmi
plans
to
dispose
of
the
AfriStar-‐1
spacecraft
at
the
end
of
its
mission

life
by
maneuvering
it
into
a
storage
orbit
above
geosynchronous
Earth
orbit,
and
has

computed
the
recommended
minimum
increase
in
the
spacecraft
perigee
altitude

according
to
the
formula
developed
by
the
IADC,
namely:

235
km
+
(1000
Cr
*
A/m),
where:

Cr
is
the
solar
radiation
pressure
coefficient,
and

A/m
is
the
aspect
area
(m2)
to
dry
mass
ratio.

For
AfriStar-‐1,
the
product
(Cr
*
A),
defined
by
the
Spacecraft
manufacturer
as
the
“mean

effective
area
as
seen
from
the
sun,”
is
68.5
m2,
and
the
predicted
mass
at
end-‐of-‐life
is

1279
kg.

Accordingly,
the
estimated
minimum
increase
in
perigee
altitude
is
288.6
km.

Yazmi
calculates
that
AfriStar-‐1
has
sufficient
fuel
to
provide
reliable
service
during

the
proposed
license
term
extension
and
to
execute
end-‐of-‐life
maneuvers
that
will
place

the
satellite
in
a
disposal
altitude
described
above,
barring
a
catastrophic
failure
of
satellite

components.

Yazmi
estimates
that
about
6
kg
of
propellant
will
be
required
for
the
orbit

raising
operation,
and
will
keep
that
amount
in
reserve.

*

*

*

In
sum,
extending
the
AfriStar-‐1
license
term
to
and
through
April
15,
2021
will

facilitate
continuity
of
service
Yazmi
provides
over
the
satellite,
and
is
consistent
with
the

fuel
budget
and
health
of
the
satellite.

Accordingly,
grant
of
this
license
extension

application
is
in
the
public
interest.

2

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