Attachment Exhibit B, Tech Supp

This document pretains to SES-LIC-20160218-00154 for License on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESLIC2016021800154_1126779

                                                    Exhibit B – Technical Supplement
                                                                       FCC Form 312
                                                     Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

   1. ITU Registration Information for the exactView-1 Satellite

The exactView-1 Satellite (EV1, formerly known as ADS-1B) has been registered with
the ITU as part of the ADS satellite network and its frequency assignments have been
recorded in the Master International Frequency Register:




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                                                     Exhibit B – Technical Supplement
                                                                        FCC Form 312
                                                      Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

   2. FCC Licensee Database: Search Results for 5150–5250 MHz in Alaska

A February 16, 2016 search of the FCC’s General Menu Reports system for currently
licensed operations in the state of Alaska in the 5150–5250 MHz band reveals only three
operations, all by GUSA Licensee, LLC (affiliate of Globalstar Licensee, LLC):




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                                                    Exhibit B – Technical Supplement
                                                                       FCC Form 312
                                                     Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

   3. Coordination with Globalstar

exactEarth coordinated operations for the ADS satellite network, of which exactView-1
is a part, with Globalstar Licensee, LLC, as confirmed by the email below:




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                                                                 Exhibit B – Technical Supplement
                                                                                    FCC Form 312
                                                                  Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

   4. Additional Technical Information for the exactView-1 Satellite

ExactView-1
ExactView-1 (formerly known as ADS-1B) was launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on July 22, 2012.
It’s NORAD ID is 38709 and is registered by Canada with the ITU under the name ADS.
EV1 is the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built and
utilizes high-speed C-band downlinks to frequently downlink mission data to ground stations in
Svalbard, Norway. TT&C operations are performed from Guildford, UK.
EV1 was built under contract for exactEarth by SSTL with COM DEV Europe (UK) supplying the
advanced AIS transceiver payload system for this mission. Table 1 lists EV1’s key spacecraft
characteristics and Figure 1 shows an image of the satellite.




                                      Figure 1 – The EV1 satellite
                              Table 1: EV1 Key Spacecraft Characteristics
     Parameter                                               Value

      Volume                                          600 x 600 x 620 mm

        Mass                                                 87.7 kg

  Communication
    Mission Data                                        40 Mbps C-Band
     Downlink

  Attitude Control      Nadir pointing, 3-axis stabilized using reaction wheels and magnetic torque rods

     DC Power                                    ~ 65 W orbital average at BOL



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                                                                                   FCC Form 312
                                                                 Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

     Propulsion                                             Cold gas

EV1 Orbit
EV1’s orbit is sun-synchronous with an altitude of approximately 817 km and an inclination of 99
degrees. Due to its high inclination, the spacecraft has global coverage multiple times a day. Figure 2
shows EV1’s high inclination orbit.




                                Figure 2. High Inclination Orbit of EV1
Alaska Ground Station Coverage and Access with EV1
A ground station situated in Fairbanks has access to EV1 roughly 10 times a day. The mean pass duration
is approximately 11.5 minutes. Figure 3 shows a typical Alaska – EV1 access pattern for a day. It can be
seen that there is a single maximum access gap of almost 7 hours and this happens earlier in the day.




                                 Figure 3. EV1 – Alaska access pattern




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                                                                 Exhibit B – Technical Supplement
                                                                                    FCC Form 312
                                                                  Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

Figure 4 shows the Az-El tracks of all passes of EV1 over Alaska plotted for one full week. It shows the
satellite never passes over certain azimuths due to the inclination not being exactly 90 degrees.




                                    Figure 4. AZ-El access polar plot
The coverage extent of the Alaska station, assuming a minimum display elevation mask of 3 deg is shown
in Figure 5.




                            Figure 5. Coverage extent of the Alaska station


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                                                                                        FCC Form 312
                                                                      Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

Downlink RF Specifications
EV1 uses an offset QPSK modulation scheme downlink with a fixed data rate of 40 Mb/s, 20 Mb/s
uncoded. The transmitter RF power level is 2.95 W (4.97 dBW), with a maximum radiated EIRP of 8.7
dBW. The emission designator is 31M0G7DCT with 98% of the energy within a bandwidth of 31 MHz.
The centre frequency of 5.183 GHz and is RHCP. The antenna design is based on a quadrafiler helix
dimensioned and installed in such a manner such as to provide a quasi-isoflux radiation pattern
(nadir/boresight referenced). The peak gain of the antenna is approximately 4 dBi at approximately at the
Earth horizon (limb) as shown in Figure 6.
Power Flux Density (PDF) on Earth
The Flux density is calculated as:
                                                           𝐸𝐼𝑅𝑃
                                         𝐹𝑙𝑒π‘₯ 𝐷𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑦 =
                                                          4πœ‹ × π‘‘ 2

Where: d is the distance from spacecraft to the point on the ground.
        EIRP is the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power of the Spacecraft.
The EIRP of the satellite changes with the antenna pattern due to a variable amount of gain that is
radiated at different off-boresight angles. Pattern is symmetrical in the phi angular dimension. The
antenna beam pattern can be seen in Figure 6 below. The satellite boresight is always oriented to the
nadir direction immediately below the satellite, using the EV1 three-axis ADCS system.



                                                                    60 deg
                                                                                 30
                                                                    deg



                                                                          Gmax=4d
                                                                          Bi
                                                -12     -9     -6    -3
                                                0
                                                         dBi




                                 Figure 6. Transmit antenna gain pattern



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                                                                                               FCC Form 312
                                                                             Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

         By combining the antenna pattern with the change in distance as the satellite traverses a pass, the PFD
         versus elevation angle can be found in Figure 7. The red line shows the ITU PFD limit which must be
         respected. The predicted ground elevation angle versus PFD, in Figure 7, shows more than 1dB margin at
         the worst-case elevation angle of about 35 degrees.




                                                Figure 7. PFD vs. Elevation Angle
         Table 2 below shows the PFD margin over elevation angles shown in Figure 7.
                                                Table 2: PFD vs. Elevation Angle
Parameters               Units            Nadir


GES Rx entenna
                          Degrees         90.0      80.0   70.0    60.0   50.0      40.0   30.0   20.0   15.0   10.0    5.0
elevation angle

PFD in 4 kHz              dBW/m2/4kHz -169.4 -169.3 -169.2 -168.2 -166.6 -165.4 -165.1 -166.6 -167.5 -169.1 -170.5

 PFD limit per ITU
                          dBW/m2/4kHz -164          -164   -164    -164   -164      -164   -164   -164   -164   -164    -164
5.447B

Margin (if antenna
                         dB               5.4       5.3    5.2     4.2    2.6       1.4    1.1    2.6    3.5    5.1     6.5
gain pattern is exact)


         The C-band PFD observed at the Alaska station for a single day is shown in Figure 8. The y-axis shows
         the PFD value and the x-axis is time in minutes during each satellite pass. The different colour curves
         represent the evolution of PFD level at the station for each of the different passes. For graphical clarity,


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                                                                                      FCC Form 312
                                                                    Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

the centre point of each pass has been centred (note – lower elevation passes are shorter in duration and
higher elevation passes are longer). This graph shows that a majority of the passes over the location do
not reach the maximum PFD level and even those passes that do reach this peak level have significantly
lower PFD for majority of the rest of the pass. Further insights into the likelihood of PFD levels over time
are shown in Figure 9 in a 30-day simulation of all passes over the Alaska station. The 30-day simulation
does not exhibit a higher level than the peak seen in a single day analysis (-165 dBm, below the maximum
allowable PFD limit).




Figure 8: PFD levels for all EV1 satellite passes over Fairbanks Alaska – January 26, 2016




      Figure 9: PFD levels for all EV1 satellite passes over Fairbanks Alaska – January 1 to 26, 2016



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                                                              FCC Form 312
                                            Kongsberg Satellite Services AS

   5. Additional Technical Illustrations




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Attachment6. Multiple Access Data Forall Groups

         All data in each group is multiplexed into a single bitstream

Attachment?7. Spectrum MaskDiagram for all Groups

          The Single carrier is uniformly spread in frequency

                 Minimum            Center                Maximum




                                Frequency ——————+>


 Attachment      ffected Regions for Spectrum Mask and Multiplexing

           Worldwide, Regions XR1, XR2and XR3



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Document Modified: 2016-02-18 18:50:26

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