Attachment ExhBTechSuppV1

This document pretains to SES-MFS-20170825-00955 for Modification w/ Foreign Satellite (earth station) on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESMFS2017082500955_1266476

Exhibit B – Technical Supplement FCC Form 312 – Modification Application Applicant: Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Call Sign: E160028 1. ITU Notification Information for the exactView-7 Satellite The exactView-7 satellite (“EV7”) is undergoing international coordination1 and has been notified to the ITU under the name M3MSat, as shown: 1 Although the DATAD beam (5183 MHz center frequency) for the downlink to the Station was published in Part III of BR IFIC 2840 (Mar. 7, 2017), the satellite operator continues to pursue ITU coordination and believes the problem has been resolved. 1|Page

Exhibit B – Technical Supplement FCC Form 312 – Modification Application Applicant: Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Call Sign: E160028 2. FCC Licensee Database: Search Results for 5150–5250 MHz in Alaska An August 17, 2017 search of the FCC’s General Menu Reports system for currently licensed and pending facilities in the state of Alaska in the 5150–5250 MHz band reveals only 4 operations, all by GUSA Licensee, LLC (affiliate of Globalstar Licensee, LLC) or by Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (the applicant): 2|Page

Exhibit B – Technical Supplement FCC Form 312 – Modification Application Applicant: Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Call Sign: E160028 3. Coordination with Globalstar exactEarth, the satellite operator, previously coordinated operations for the ADS satellite network, of which exactView-1 is a part, with Globalstar Licensee, LLC, as confirmed by the email below. exactView-7’s (“EV7”) downlink to Fairbanks, AK uses the same properties as the downlink for exactView-12 does, except EV7 uses slightly less bandwidth. 2 exactView-1 is operating with KSAT’s satellite earth station in Fairbanks, AK, pursuant to authority granted by the Commission. Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Application to Operate a New Receive- Only Earth Station in Fairbanks, AK, FCC IBFS No. SES-LIC-20160218-00154 (granted Feb. 14, 2017). 3|Page

Exhibit B – Technical Supplement FCC Form 312 – Modification Application Applicant: Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Call Sign: E160028 4. Additional Information Concerning Data/Errata in the Associated Schedule S for the exactView-7 Satellite The Schedule S for this application was prepared using the FCC’s new Schedule S online software3 and in accordance with the Schedule S instructions.4 The following are notes and clarifications with respect to KSAT’s entries into the Schedule S form for the exactView-7 satellite (ITU name: M3MSat): (1) The Schedule S online form requires at least one receive frequency band/beam to be added in order to complete the form. KSAT is not seeking authorization for the Satellite’s reception of AIS signals, but rather for the reception by the earth station of AIS data transmitted from the satellite. Accordingly, KSAT has filled in dummy information wherever information related to receive frequencies was required to proceed with the form, which occurred in the following Schedule S sections: a. Operating Frequency Bands b. Receiving Beams c. Receiving Channels (2) In the section, “Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbital Information,” when adding Orbital Plane Information, the form asks for the “Active Service Arc Begin Angle with respect to Ascending Node” and corresponding “End Angle.” Although the Satellite is in a polar orbit and the payload could be acquiring anywhere in the orbit, the Satellite’s downlink to the Station will not be active during the entire orbit. KSAT has input “0 degrees” for both the Begin and End Angles. (3) On the page titled, “Max. Power Flux Density for DATD”5 (part of the Transmitting Beam section), we have input dummy values of “-200.0” for the fields “20° - 25° (dbW/m2/BW)” and “25° - 90° (dbW/m2/BW).” Please refer instead to the table below: 3 The FCC’s new Schedule S software is available at https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/schedules/. 4 Specific Instructions For Schedule S (April 2016), available at https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/ schedules//resources/Instructions%20for%20Schedule%20S%20vApr2016.pdf. 5 The beam, DATD, in Schedule S corresponds to the DATAD beam in the ITU filings. 4|Page

Exhibit B – Technical Supplement FCC Form 312 – Modification Application Applicant: Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Call Sign: E160028 Elevation degrees 3 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Angle Off Nadir degrees 65.0 64.7 63.3 61.2 58.5 51.8 44 35.7 27 18.1 9.1 0 Angle PFD in 4 dBW/m2 -170.8 -170.3 -169.4 -169.4 -169.5 -169.9 -170.2 -170.3 -170.4 -170.3 -170.3 -170.3 kHz /4kHz PFD limit dBW/m2 per ITU -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 -164 /4kHz 5.447B Margin dB 5.8 6.3 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.9 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.3 6.3 6.3 5|Page

Exhibit B – Technical Supplement FCC Form 312 – Modification Application Applicant: Kongsberg Satellite Services AS Call Sign: E160028 5. Satellite Transmit Antenna Gain Pattern Below is the antenna gain pattern for the EV7 antenna downlinking to the Station. Note that the design for EV7’s downlink antenna is identical to the antenna on EV1.6 6 See supra note 2 (referencing license grant for E160028 to operate with exactEarth’s EV1). 6|Page


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