GeoEye -- Point Barr

LETTER submitted by GeoEye License Corp.

Point Barrow Notification Letter

2010-11-22

This document pretains to SES-RWL-20090317-00333 for Renewal on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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555 Eleventh Street, N.W., Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20004-1304 Tel: +1.202.637.2200 Fax: +1.202.637.2201 www.lw.com FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES Abu Dhabi Moscow Barcelona Munich Beijing New Jersey Brussels New York Chicago Orange County November 22, 2010 Doha Paris Dubai Riyadh Frankfurt Rome BY ELECTRONIC FILING Hamburg San Diego Hong Kong San Francisco Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Houston Shanghai London Silicon Valley Secretary Los Angeles Singapore Federal Communications Commission Madrid Tokyo Office of the Secretary Milan Washington, D.C. 445 12th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Attn: Paul Blais RE: GeoEye License Corp., E980376, Point Barrow, Alaska IBFS File No. SES-RWL-20090317-00333 Dear Ms. Dortch, GeoEye License Corp. f/k/a ORBIMAGE License Corp. (“GeoEye”) currently holds a license to operate an earth station facility, E980376, at Point Barrow, Alaska (the “Point Barrow Antenna”). That license permits GeoEye to communicate with the U.S.-licensed GeoEye-1 and OrbView-3 spacecraft at an elevation angle of not less than three degrees. GeoEye hereby notifies the Commission of its intent to initiate operations to receive signals from these same U.S.-licensed spacecraft over the Point Barrow Antenna at an elevation angle of less than three degrees. These operations will augment GeoEye’s licensed operations, and increase the period of time during which the Point Barrow Antenna can receive communications from the GeoEye-1 and OrbView-3 spacecraft during each of their respective orbits. Section 25.131 of the Commission’s rules makes clear that an operator need not obtain prior authorization from the Commission in order to receive communications from U.S.-licensed spacecraft. 47 C.F.R. § 25.131. Accordingly, GeoEye is not seeking prior authorization for its receive operations with the Point Barrow Antenna at an elevation angle of less than three degrees. The operation of the Point Barrow Antenna otherwise will remain within licensed parameters, and GeoEye will not alter its transmit parameters in any way. In order to avoid any confusion over the nature of GeoEye’s operations with the Point Barrow Antenna, GeoEye requests that the Commission update the license to reflect that GeoEye is conducting receive operations at an elevation angle of less than three degrees. GeoEye clarifies, though, that it is not seeking interference protection with respect to those receive operations, and is not requesting that those operations be “registered” under Section 25.131. Please contact the undersigned should you have any questions.

November 22, 2010 Page 2 Sincerely yours, /s/ John P. Janka John P. Janka Jarrett S. Taubman Counsel for GeoEye License Corp.


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