XM-2 Retirement Lett

LETTER submitted by XM Radio LLC

XM-2 Retirement Letter

2014-10-29

This document pretains to SAT-STA-20141017-00109 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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SatCom Law LLC 1317 F St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20004 T 202.599.0975 www.satcomlaw.com October 29, 2014 FILED ELECTRONICALLY Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Retirement of XM-2 (Call Sign S2119), File No. SAT-STA-20141017-00109 Dear Ms. Dortch: XM Radio LLC (“XM Radio”), by its attorney, hereby advises the Commission that it has placed its XM-2 spacecraft, call sign S2119, into a disposal orbit and asks that the Commission close the IBFS license account for this spacecraft. Deorbit maneuvers commenced on October 28, 2014, and final commands were also sent on that date. The disposal orbit has a perigee altitude of approximately 335 km above the geostationary arc and an apogee altitude of approximately 341 km above the geostationary arc. The eccentricity is 0.000073. In light of the satellite’s retirement, XM Radio requests that the Commission terminate the license account for call sign S2119 in the IBFS database. Please address any questions regarding this matter to the undersigned. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Karis A. Hastings Karis A. Hastings Counsel for XM Radio LLC karis@satcomlaw.com cc: Stephen Duall Karl Kensinger Kathyrn Medley Jay Whaley


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