2009-04-14 FINAL NSS

LETTER submitted by New Skies Satellites B.V.

Letter -- NSS-5

2009-04-16

This document pretains to SAT-PDR-20011016-00137 for Petition for Declaratory Ruling on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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April 16, 2009 BY ELECTRONIC FILING Marlene H. Dortch Office of the Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: File No. SAT-PDR-20011016-00137; Call Sign S2463 Dear Ms. Dortch: New Skies Satellites B.V. (“New Skies”) writes to inform you that on April 14, 2009, it initiated redeployment of the Netherlands-licensed NSS-5 satellite from 177° W.L. to another orbital location under Dutch authority. While New Skies will not be seeking U.S. market access for NSS-5 at its next orbital location, it does anticipate relocating NSS-5 at a later date to a portion of the geostationary arc from which service to the U.S. will be possible. Therefore, New Skies respectfully requests that the Commission not terminate NSS-5’s Permitted Space Station List status at this time, but rather suspend it pending return of the spacecraft to a location capable of providing U.S. service. Such a course of action will conserve Commission resources by avoiding the need for the Commission to review a largely repetitive New Skies filing seeking NSS-5 market access when the Commission has already determined that NSS-5 is eligible for Permitted List status. Instead, New Skies would propose filing in advance of NSS-5’s arrival at a later U.S.-visible orbital position only the information relating to NSS-5 that will change as a result of deployment of the spacecraft to a new orbital location, such as the service contours and interference analysis. Rooseveltplantsoen 4 | 2517 KR The Hague | The Netherlands | tel: +31 (0)70 306 4100 | fax +31 (0)70 306 4101 | www.ses-newskies.com NEW SKIES SATELLITES B.V. | Chamber of Commerce registration number 30 14 62 77

Marlene H. Dortch April 16, 2009 Page 2 If you have any questions, please direct them to me. Sincerely yours, /s/ Joslyn Read Vice President – Regulatory Affairs for New Skies Satellites B.V. cc: Robert Nelson Stephen Duall


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