Attachment 20100219140822.pdf

20100219140822.pdf

DECISION submitted by FCC

Grant

2010-02-18

This document pretains to SES-STA-20100208-00166 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2010020800166_802187

E070098 SES—STA—20100208—00166 182010000456 TerreStar License Inc. Approved by OMB 3060—0678 APPLICATION FOR EARTH STATION SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY APPLICANT INFORMATIONEnter a description of this application to identify it on the main menu: 1.8—m station, Phase II IOT, extension to 06—30—2010 (Feb 2010) 1. Applicant Name: TerreStar License Inc. Phone Number: 703—483—7800 DBA Name: Fax Number: Street: 12010 Sunset Hills Road E—Mail: doug.brandon@terrestar.com City: Reston State: VA Country: USA Zipcode: 20190 — Attention: MrDouglas I Brandon | mie# SES—S7f—20100208—00lo(lp Call Sign(zi}l()(}fi& Grant Date &\ lg{aQ( [ {or other identifier) Term Dates _| From 9\’ H‘QO(O To: 6 l?)d&Ol O mnmemeommmmmmmmmemmemmessmed Approved: \ Z7 w Sharma‘t 6 havar\

Attachment SES—STA—20100208—00166 E070098 Condition: All operations shall be on an unprotected and non—harmful interference basis, i.¢e., TerreStar License Inc. shall not cause harmful interference to, and shall not claim protection from, interference caused to it by any other lawfully operating station and it shall cease transmission(s) immediately upon notice of such interference. 7 ns « SEeSs—STA 2000 266—00 l (p Call Sign £07100 cf(‘:*rmiancQ» hg‘ ol0© | i {or other ic ntifier) | | Term Dates | To’;‘(o ‘?)O\'&OLO :‘-')0 | Sholmmaa2 GhoVo mt

2. Contact Name: Joseph A. Godles, Esq. Phone Number: 202—429—4900 Company: Goldberg Godles Wiener & Wright Fax Number: 202—429—4912 Street: 1229 19th Street, NW E—Mail: jgodles@g2w2.com City: Washington State: DC Country: USA Zipcode: 20036 —2413 Attention: Relationship: Legal Counsel (If your application is related to an application filed with the Commission, entereither the file number or the IB Submission ID of the related application. Please enter only one.) 3. Reference File Number or Submission ID 4a. Is a fee submitted with this application? & IfYes, complete and attach FCC Form 159. If No, indicate reason for fee exemption (see 47 C.F.R.Section 1.1114). {» Governmental Entity C Noncommercial educational licensee + Other(please explain): 4b. Fee Classification CGX — Fixed Satellite Transmit/Receive Earth Station 5. Type Request «34 Use Prior to Grant (e] Change Station Location & Other 6. Requested Use Prior Date 02/11/2010 7. CityNorth Las Vegas 8. Latitude (dd mm ss.s h) 36 14 9.9 N

9. State NV 10. Longitude (dd mmss.s h) 115 7 1.3 W 11. Please supply any need attachments. Attachment 1: STA extension Attachment 2: Attachment 3: 12. Description. (If the complete description does not appear in this box, please go to the end of the form to view it in its entirety.) In accordance with the details of the attached exhibit, Applicant hereby requests a further extension, commencing February 11, 2010, of its Special Temporary Authority, in order to continue conducting Phase II in—orbit testing (IOT) of the TerreStar—1 satellite using a 1.8—m mobile earth terminal that will be co—located with TerreStar‘s North Las 13. By checking Yes, the undersigned certifies that neither applicant nor any other party to the application is @ Yos £y No subject to a denial of Federal benefits that includes FCC benefits pursuant to Section 5301 of the Anti—Drug Act of 1988, 21 U.S.C. Section 862, because of a conviction for possession or distribution of a controlled substance. See 47 CFR 1.2002(b) for the meaning of "party to the application" for these purposes. 14. Name of Person Signing 15. Title of Person Signing Douglas I Brandon General Counsel and Senior Vice President WILLEUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND / OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1001), AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION AUTHORIZATION (U.S. Code, Title 47, Section 312(a)(1}), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.S. Code, Title 47, Section 503).

FCC NOTICE REQUIRED BY THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT The public reporting for this collection of information is estimated to average 2 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the required data, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. If you have any comments on this burden estimate, or how we can improve the collection and reduce the burden it causes you, please write to the Federal Communications Commission, AMD—PERM, Paperwork Reduction Project (3060—0678), Washington, DC 20554. We will also accept your comments regarding the Paperwork Reduction Act aspects of this collection via the Internet if you send them to PRAQ@fcc.gov. PLEASE DO NOT SEND COMPLETED FORMS TO THIS ADDRESS. Remember — You are not required to respond to a collection of information sponsored by the Federal government, and the government may not conduct or sponsor this collection, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number or if we fail to provide you with this notice. This collection has been assigned an OMB control number of 3060—0678. THE FOREGOING NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995, PUBLIC LAW 104—13, OCTOBER 1, 1995, 44 U.S.C. SECTION 3507.

12. Description In accordance with the details of the attached exhibit, Applicant hereby requests a further extension, commencing February 11, 2010, of its Special Temporary Authority, in order to continue conducting Phase II in—orbit testing (IOT) of the TerreStar—1 satellite using a 1.8—m mobile earth terminal that will be co—located with TerreStar‘s North Las Vegas gateway earth station. Applicant requests that the STA be extended through and including June 30, 2010 .

Exhibit 1 REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY Following the successful launch of the TerreStar—1 satellite on July 1, 2009, TerreStar conducted and successfully completed, pursuant to grants of special temporary authority ("STA"), satellite payload In—Orbit—Testing (IOT) activity. Since the third quarter of 2009, also pursuant to STAs, TerreStar has been engaged in "Phase II" SBN—IOT (Satellite Beamforming Network — In—Orbit—Testing) of its Ground Based Beam Forming (GBBF) and other subsystems. The STAs for SBN—IOT will expire on February 10, 2010. Due to the complex and ground—breaking nature of the GBBF and the base station technologies involved, TerreStar‘s SBN—IOT test activities need to be extended beyond the February 10. Therefore, it is seeking an extension of the STAs to June 30, 2010. As before, the following four facilities will be used for SBN—IOT: (1) TerreStar—1, a Canadian—licensed satellite as to which TerreStar holds a letter of intent ("LOI") authorization (Call Sign $2633) to serve the United States; (2) the 6.3—m and 9.3—m antennas associated with TerreStar‘s licensed gateway earth station located in North Las Vegas, Nevada (Call Sign E070098); (3) an unlicensed 1.8—m mobile earth terminal ("MET")" that is co—located with TerreStar‘s North Las Vegas gateway earth station; and (4) TerreStar‘s Calibration Earth Stations ("CES"). A copy of this exhibit accompanies each STA extension request TerreStar is filing in connection with SBN—IOT. The STA request form this exhibit is attached to identifies, for each STA extension request: (1) the time period for which an STA is sought; and (2) the facility for which an STA is sought.* The essence of the continuing SBN—IOT testing activity is described below: e The test involves over—the—satellite debugging and performance improvement of the GBBF and related element channel amplitude/phase calibration and pointing subsystems. e The activity will also involve the testing of a new beam—forming algorithm, called Enhanced Beam Forming (EBF), which will significantly improve the performance of the system. e Two tests that were authorized by the previously—granted STA, specifically Payload Bake—out test and the Interface Verification test under the Forward 1 The 1.8—m MET, operating in a temporary fixed mode, uses a custom antenna that is designed for the express purpose of testing service link performance on TerreStar—1. The 1.8—m MET is entirely different from the MET handsets that will be used by TerreStar‘s customers. 2 Based on discussions with the FCC‘s staff, and in light of the fact that no FCC radio license has been issued for TerreStar—1, TerreStar did not file any request for special temporary authority for the satellite in connection with IOT. Rather, TerreStar identified in the initial IOT STA requests the parameters for TerreStar—1‘s operations during IOT that deviate from the parameters on which the LOI authorization for TerreStar—1 are based.

Exhibit 1 Payload Tests, have been completed and will not need to be executed during the STA extension period requested in this filing. In addition to the SBN—IOT test activity described above, for the information of the Commission, TerreStar has also been engaged, in parallel, in the end—to—end testing of its satellite system under the existing licenses of its North Las Vegas (NLV) gateway station and the handsets (i.e. user terminals). Test calls have been placed over the S—band and Ku—band satellite channels. Major ground subsystems being tested include the satellite base station (S— BSS), GBBF, handsets, and the Core Network. A new version of the S—BSS is scheduled to be tested during the coming STA extension period that will result in improved system capability and performance. Finally, TerreStar handsets, with a trade name Genus, have been subject to numerous satellite field tests to improve their functionalities and performance.


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