Attachment Modification Request

This document pretains to SES-MFS-20121128-01044 for Modification w/ Foreign Satellite (earth station) on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESMFS2012112801044_976434

SES Americom, Inc. Page 1 of 1 APPLICATION FOR MODIFICATION OF LICENSE Earth Station E970336 SES Americom, Inc. (doing business as “SES”) hereby requests modification of its license for earth station E970336 to add the QuetzSat-1 satellite as a point of communications for the purposes of providing tracking, telemetry and command (“TT&C”). QuetzSat-1 is a foreign-licensed Direct Broadcast Satellite (“DBS”) spacecraft to be positioned in the DBS cluster at the nominal 77° W.L. orbital location. 1 Full technical information regarding QuetzSat-1, including a completed Schedule S and a narrative technical appendix, is already on file with the Commission. 2 SES hereby incorporates those materials by reference. The Echo 77 Application also includes a showing pursuant to the Commission’s DISCO II framework 3 applicable to use of a foreign-licensed spacecraft to serve the United States. 4 The instant application, however, does not seek authority to use QuetzSat-1 to offer service to U.S. customers. Instead, SES seeks to use E970336 only for TT&C operations. Use of a U.S.-licensed earth station to communicate with a foreign-licensed satellite for TT&C purposes only does not raise the types of market access and competitive parity issues underlying the DISCO II framework. However, to the extent that the Commission believes that a DISCO II showing is required here, SES incorporates by reference the showing provided in the Echo 77 Application. The requested modification will support use of QuetzSat-1 for service to customers by permitting SES to provide TT&C and is therefore in the public interest. 1 Initially QuetzSat-1 will be positioned at 77.05° W.L.+/- 0.05 degrees, but may be relocated in the future within the cluster (77.0° W.L. +/- 0.2 degrees). Upon its arrival at the 77º W.L. DBS cluster, QuetzSat-1 will commence operating under a license granted by Mexico. 2 See EchoStar 77 Corp., Call Sign E050196, File Nos. SES-MFS-20110707-00793 & SES- AMD-20110809-00937, granted Nov. 10, 2011 (“Echo 77 Application”). 3 See Amendment of the Commission’s Polices to Allow Non-U.S. Licensed Space Stations Providing Domestic and International Service in the United States, 12 FCC Rcd 24094, 24170- 72 (1997) (“DISCO II”). 4 See Echo 77 Application, Narrative at 6-7.


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