2012.08.24 Letter.pd

LETTER submitted by EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation

Update re QuetzSat-1

2012-08-24

This document pretains to SES-MFS-20110926-01139 for Modification w/ Foreign Satellite (earth station) on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESMFS2011092601139_964443

Stephanie A. Roy 202 429 6278 sroy@steptoe.com 1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1795 202 429 3000 main www.steptoe.com 24 August 2012 Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Call Sign E070014 (SES-STA-20120412-00360, SES-STA-20110815-00955, SES- STA-20111021-01250), Call Sign E080058 (SES-MFS-20110926-01138), Call Sign E980174 (SES-MFS-20110926-01140), Call Sign E980180 (SES-MFS-20110926-01139), Call Sign E980005 (SES-STA-20110815-00956, SES-STA-20111021-01251), Call Sign E090020 (SES- AMD-20110809-00938, SES-MFS-20110707-00792), Call Sign E050196 (SES-AMD- 20110809-00937, SES-MFS-20110707-00793), Call Sign E080162 (SES-STA-20120413- 00364) Dear Ms. Dortch: EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation and SES Americom, Inc. take this opportunity to update the information provided to the Commission in the above-referenced files. Specifically, based on the latest information received from the UK Space Agency: • The United Kingdom will register QuetzSat-1 as a UK space object on the space object registries of the United Nations and the United Kingdom. • The United Kingdom will remain the State of registry of the QuetzSat-1 spacecraft for purposes of the UN Convention on the Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space even after the present U.K. space activity license for QuetzSat-1 expires. Please let us know if you have any questions regarding this submission.

Respectfully submitted, /s/ Stephanie A. Roy Steptoe & Johnson LLP 1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 (202) 429-3000 Counsel for EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation /s/ Daniel Mah Regulatory Counsel SES Americom, Inc. 1129 20th Street, NW, Suite 100 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 478-7137 cc: Karl Kensinger Stephen Duall Paul Blais


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