Skynet-Hispasat.F.pd

REQUEST submitted by Telesat

Request for Clarification

2014-01-27

This document pretains to SAT-PPL-20130430-00064 for Permitted List on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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LAW OFFICES GOLDBERG, GODLES, WIENER & WRIGHT LLP 1229 NINETEENTH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036-2413 HENRY GOLDBERG (202) 429-4900 JOSEPH A. GODLES TELECOPIER: JONATHAN L. WIENER (202) 429-4912 LAURA A. STEFANI DEVENDRA (“DAVE”) KUMAR e-mail: ________ general@g2w2.com HENRIETTA WRIGHT website: www.g2w2.com THOMAS G. GHERARDI, P.C. COUNSEL ________ THOMAS S. TYCZ* SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR *NOT AN ATTORNEY January 27, 2014 BY ELECTRONIC FILING Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: FCC File No. SAT-PPL-20130430—00064, Petition of Hispasat S.A. (“Hispasat”) for a Declaratory Ruling (“Petition”) to Add the Amazonas-1 Space Station at the 36° W.L. Orbital Location to the Commission's Permitted Space Station List in the 11.7-12.2 GHz (Space-to-Earth) and 14.0-14.5 GHz (Earth-to-Space) Frequency Bands and to Access the U.S. Market via Amazonas-1 at 36° W.L. in the13.75- 14.0 GHz (Earth-to-Space) Frequency Band (Int’l Bur Dec. 27, 2013), DA 13-2473 (“Hispasat Grant”) Dear Ms. Dortch: Skynet Satellite Corporation (“Skynet”) hereby requests clarification concerning the conditions imposed by the Commission in the above-referenced Hispasat Grant. More particularly, Skynet requests confirmation that should the technical parameters in Hispasat’s coordination agreements be more restrictive than the technical parameters that Hispasat provided in its above-referenced Petition, then Hispasat would have to abide by the more restrictive coordination conditions. Skynet holds an FCC license to operate Telstar 11N at 37.55° W.L. 1 Hispasat’s Ku-band uplink and downlink frequencies at 36.0° W.L. overlap with Skynet’s Ku-band 1 FCC File No. SAT-MOD-20060306-00024, Application for Modification of Authorization (Int’l. Bur Dec. 4, 2007), DA 07-5001.

Ms. Marlene H. Dortch January 27, 2014 Page 2 uplink and downlink frequencies at 37.55° W.L. Skynet and Hispasat are parties to a Satellite Coordination Agreement, dated November 15, 2011 (“Coordination Agreement”), that addresses these operations. 2 In its Petition, Hispasat committed to operating in accordance with its coordination agreements in order to avoid causing unacceptable interference to adjacent satellites, including Telstar 11N. 3 And the Hispasat Grant includes a condition requiring that Hispasat comply with all existing and future space station coordination agreements. 4 Notwithstanding Hispasat’s commitment and the condition on the Hispasat Grant, there is a potential ambiguity because: (i) some of the uplink and downlink parameters provided by Hispasat in its Petition, including the parameters shown in Hispasat’s link budgets, exceed the limits Hispasat has coordinated with Skynet; and (ii) the Hispasat Grant states that Amazonas-1 must be operated in accordance with the terms, conditions, and technical specifications that were contained in Hispasat’s Petition. 5 To eliminate this potential ambiguity and ensure that Hispasat’s commitments and the conditions in the Hispasat Grant are given proper effect, Skynet requests that the Commission clarify that if the technical parameters shown in Hispasat’s Petition exceed coordinated limits, then Hispasat must observe the coordinated limits. Respectfully submitted, Joseph A. Godles Attorney for Skynet Satellite Corporation cc (via e-mail and US mail): Vicente Rubio, Hispasat 2 The ITU filing associated with Telstar 11N (USASAT-26A), which has been notified, has ITU priority over the ITU filing associated with Amazonas-1 (HISPASAT 2A 36W), which is in coordination. 3 Petition, Section 25.114(d) Technical Showing, at 4. See also Petition, Section 25.114(c) Technical Showing, at 4. 4 Hispasat Grant, Condition 2. 5 Hispasat Grant, Introductory Paragraph.


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