Attachment STA Request

This document pretains to SES-STA-20101206-01509 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2010120601509_855371

December 6, 2010 ‘_Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12"" Street, S.W. Washington, DC20554 Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority Clarksburg, Maryland Earth Station KA275 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 Clarksburg, Maryland earth station —— call sign KA275 —— to provide 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 driftingEast in an uncontrolled manner. Although Intelsat is seeking immediate authority, 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 the off—point occurs, the satellite‘s TT&C will be transferred to earth station call sign KA275 or to its primary back—up, earth station call sign EQ40125 (Riverside, California), or its secondary back— up, earth station 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 ‘ 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 The transmitted eirp for nominal recovery operations will be 85 dBW. That eirp level could be exceeded — up to the maximum antenna capability — in the case of emergency. During recovery operations, the KA275 antenna will operate within its licensed parameters. Accordingly, no additional coordination with terrestrial services is necessary. _ The proposed 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 andreturn 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. Sincerely, Susan H. Crandall Assistant General Counsel Intelsat Corporation _ co: Paul Blais Kathyrn Medley:


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