Attachment Exhibit A [E060298]

This document pretains to SES-MOD-20100223-00242 for Modification on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESMOD2010022300242_802410

                    SHOWING REQUIRED UNDER SECTION 25.203(K)
                               Call Sign: E060298


         In this application, DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC ("DIRECTV") seeks to modify
an existing Ka—band earth station license to add the DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 12
satellites as additional points of communication. Under Section 25.203(k) of the
Commission‘s rules, an earth station applicant that proposes to operate in a shared
frequency band in which an NGSO system is licensed for feeder links must demonstrate
that its proposed operations will not cause unacceptable interference to that system.
Iridium Satellite LLC ("Iridium") is licensed for feeder links in the 29.25—29.30 GHz
band, which will also be used by DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 12. Accordingly,
DIRECTV submits this demonstration to satisfy the requirements of Section 25.203(k).

        At the outset, DIRECTV notes that this earth station is already licensed to
communicate with SPACEWAY 1 at 103° W.L. in the 29.25—29.5 GHz band. This
application seeks to add authority to communicate with DIRECTV 10 and DIRECTV 12,
also to be located at the nominal 103° W.L.‘ In these circumstances, DIRECTV submits
that any change in the overall existing interference environment for Iridium‘s NGSO
system resulting from the addition of this new point of communication would be de
minimus and, as such, a detailed interference evaluation is unnecessary.




!   SPACEWAY 1 is currently located at 102.885° W.L., and DIRECTV currently has
    pending applications to slightly relocate this satellite to 102.925° W.L. (SAT—MOD—
    20091009—00108), i.e. a change of 0.04°, and to slightly relocated DIRECTV 10 from
    its current location of 102.775° W.L. to 102.815° W.L. (SAT—MOD—20091009—0010),
    i.e. a change of 0.04°. Once SPACEWAY 1 and DIRECTV 10 are slightly relocated,
    DIRECTV 12 would then be located at 102.765° W.L. As such, any re—pointing of
    the already licensed antenna in question would only change its pointing direction
    slightly to communicate with DIRECTV 10 (i.e. 0.07°) or DIRECTV 12 (i.e. 0.12°).
    DIRECTV 10 is currently located at 102.775° W.L., and DIRECTV currently has
    pending an application to relocate this satellite to 102.815° W.L. (SAT—MOD—
    20091009—00109), i.e. a change of 0.04°. After that slight relocation of DIRECTV
    10, DIRECTV 12 would then be located at 102.765° W.L., which is offset from the
    current DIRECTV 10 location by only 0.01°.



Document Created: 2010-02-23 09:11:11
Document Modified: 2010-02-23 09:11:11

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