Attachment STA Request

This document pretains to SES-STA-20101206-01508 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2010120601508_855373

December 6, 2010 Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12"" Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 INTELSAT. Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority Riverside, California Earth Station E040125 Dear Ms. Dortch: Intelsat North America LLC ("Intelsat") herein requests a grant of Special Temporary Authority ("STA")‘ for 30 days, beginning as soon as possible, to use its Riverside, California earth station —— call sign E040125 —— to provide back—up TT&C services to the Galaxy 15 satellite in an effort to recover the satellite. As the Commission is aware, the Galaxy 15 satellite (call sign . $2387) operated by Intelsat‘s sister company, PanAmSat Licensee Corp. ("‘PanAmSat"), experienced an anomaly on April 5, 2010 and is currently drifting East in an uncontrolled manner. Although Intelsat is seeking immediateauthority, actual transmissions to Galaxy 15 will not occur until the satellite begins to off—point and tumble. This is expected to occur some time in the month of December 2010. ; Currently,earth station call sign E030307 (Ellenwood, Georgia) receives only telemetry from Galaxy 15. When this off—point occurs, the satellite‘s TT&C will be transferred to earth station call sign KA275 (Clarksburg, Maryland) or to its primary back—up, EO40125, or to its secondary back—up, E4132 (Fillmore, California)." When tumbling, the Galaxy 15 satellite is expected to be located in a slightly inclined geostationary orbit (up to 0.6 degrees), at an orbital longitude that could be anywhere between 101° W.L. and 97° W.L. | The Galaxy 15 emergency TT&C operations will be performed in the following frequency bands: e 6420.5 MHz (V/RHCP) in the uplink, and 4198 MHz or 4199.875 MHz (H/LHCP) in the downlink The transmitted eirp fornominal recovery operations will be 85 dBW.‘ That eirp level could be exceeded — up to the maximum antenna capability — in the ‘Intelsat has filed its STA request, an FCC Form 159, a $175.00 filing fee and this supporting letter electronically via the International Bureau‘s Filing System ("IBFS"). > STA requests are being filed for all three antennas. Intelsat Corporation 3400 International Drive NW, Washington DC 20008—3006 USA www.intelsat.com T +1 202—944—6800 F+1 202—944—7898

Ms. Marlene H. Dortch December 6, 2010 Page 2 case of emergency. During recovery operations, the EQ40125 antenna will operate (if needed) largely within it licensed parameters, except for the slight inclination of the orbit. Accordingly, no additional coordination with terrestrial services is necessary. The proposed Galaxy 15 recovery operations have been coordinated with operators of all satellites that could potentially be affected. As such, Intelsat does not expect any harmful interference into lawfully operating radiocommunication facilities during recovery operations. Nevertheless, all operators of satellites in that path will be provided with an emergency phone number where the licensee can be reached in the event that harmful interference occurs. Grant of this STA request will allow Intelsat to potentially recover the Galaxy 15 satellite and return it to a location where it can operate without causing interference. This, in turn, will promote the public interest by removing the threat of interference into other operators currently posed by Galaxy 15, as well as returning the satellite to regular operation. For the reasons set forth herein, Intelsat respectfully requests that the Commission expeditiously grant this extension request. Respectfully submitted, Susan H. Crandall | Assistant General Counsel Intelsat Corporation Co: Paul Blais Kathyrn Medley


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