Planet Ex Parte Fili

LETTER submitted by Planet Labs Inc.

Planet Ex Parte

2019-03-29

This document pretains to SAT-MOD-20180918-00073 for Modification on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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                                                               Hogan Lovells US LLP
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March 29, 2019


VIA IBFS

Ms. Marlene H. Dortch
Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

Re:        Ex Parte Letter
           DG Consents Sub Inc., IBFS File No. SAT-MOD-20180918-00073

Dear Ms. Dortch:

On March 27, 2019, representatives of Planet Labs Inc. (“Planet”) met with representatives of the
International Bureau and the Office of Engineering and Technology regarding the above-referenced
proceeding. The following individuals participated in the meeting on behalf of Planet: Craig
Scheffler, Technical Program Manager – RF Spectrum Management; Tony Lin, outside counsel for
Planet; and Sarah Leggin, outside counsel for Planet. The following people participated in the
meeting on behalf of the FCC: Jose Albuquerque, Satellite Division Chief; Karl Kensinger, Deputy
Division Chief; Stephen Duall, Policy Branch Chief; Cindy Spiers, Policy Branch Attorney Advisor;
Sankar Persaud, Engineering Branch Engineer; and Anthony Serafini, Experimental Licensing
Branch Chief (by phone).

Planet reiterated the positions discussed in its letter requesting that the FCC include as a condition
of any grant of the application that DigitalGlobe complete coordination with Planet prior to any
operations under the proposed application.1 The FCC encouraged Planet to resolve the matter with
DigitalGlobe consistent the license application commitments of both parties to share non-mutually
exclusive spectrum resources with current and future NGSO systems operating in the same
frequency bands. Planet stated that the parties are still in coordination discussions.




1
 Letter from Tony Lin, Counsel to Planet Labs Inc., to Marlene Dortch, FCC, Re: FCC, DG Consents
Sub, FCC File No. SAT-MOD-20180918-00073 (Dec. 21, 2018).


Pursuant to Section 1.1206(b) of the Commission’s rules, this letter is being filed electronically in the
above-referenced proceeding. Please direct any questions regarding this letter to the undersigned.


                                                                 Respectfully submitted,


                                                                 /s/ Tony Lin

                                                                 Tony Lin
                                                                 Counsel
                                                                 tony.lin@hoganlovells.com
                                                                 D 1+ 202 637 5795


cc:     (via email)
        Jose Albuquerque
        Karl Kensinger
        Stephen Duall
        Cindy Spiers
        Sankar Persaud
        Anthony Serafini



Document Created: 2019-03-29 16:31:42
Document Modified: 2019-03-29 16:31:42

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