Attachment STA Narrative

This document pretains to SES-STA-20171121-01272 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2017112101272_1305969

                                                                                     Exhibit A
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                 REQUEST FOR SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY

              SES Americom, Inc. (“SES”) respectfully requests special temporary
authority (“STA”) for a period of 30 days beginning December 5, 2017, to permit SES to
use two earth stations, one at its Woodbine teleport in Mt. Airy, MD (E120055), and one
at its Sunset Beach teleport in Haleiwa, HI (E000313), to communicate with the
Gibraltar-licensed AMC-18 C-band spacecraft (Call Sign S2713) in order to provide
Tracking, Telemetry and Command (“TT&C”): (1) during the planned relocation of the
spacecraft from its current position at 104.95° W.L. to 139° W.L.; and (2) once the
satellite arrives on-station at 139° W.L.
              SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Limited (“SES Gibraltar”) received market
access for the C-band AMC-18 satellite to serve the United States from 104.95° W.L.1
At that location, AMC-18 will be replaced by the C-band payload of the SES-11 satellite,
which was launched on October 11, 2017.2 Once traffic has been transferred from
AMC-18 to SES-11, AMC-18 will become available for reassignment, and SES Gibraltar
plans to relocate the satellite to 139° W.L., where AMC-18 will be available to provide
back-up capacity for the AMC-8 spacecraft. SES Gibraltar is preparing a fleet
management notification for that reassignment.
              In order to support relocation of AMC-18, SES requests special temporary
authority for two earth stations to communicate with the satellite to provide TT&C during
the drift and after arrival of the satellite at 139° W.L. Each of the earth stations is
licensed for operations in the conventional C-band TT&C frequencies used by AMC-18,
and the coordinated satellite arc for each earth station encompasses the range between
104.95° W.L. and 139° W.L. over which AMC-18 will drift. Details of the operational
characteristics for the TT&C transmissions are provided in Attachment 1.
              The transmissions associated with the TT&C will not cause harmful
interference to the operations of any other spacecraft or terrestrial operators. TT&C


1
 SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Limited, (Call Sign S2713), File No. SAT-PPL-20061006-
00118, granted Dec. 7, 2006.
2
 SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Limited, (Call Sign S2964), File No. SAT-PPL-20160512-
0048, granted Dec. 7, 2016.


transmissions during the drift of AMC-18 will be on a non-harmful interference basis and
will comply with the technical specifications in the existing earth station licenses. The
drift of AMC-18 will be coordinated with other satellite operators consistent with industry
practice.3 Upon arrival at 139° W.L., the closest satellites to AMC-18 will be operated
by SES entities.
              For the foregoing reasons, SES respectfully requests special temporary
authority to communicate with AMC-18 for a period of up to 30 days to provide TT&C
during relocation of the satellite and once it is on station as described herein. Grant of
this STA is in the public interest as the requested TT&C authority will facilitate the safe
operation of AMC-18 as it drifts to and is located at 139° W.L.




3
 The following are 24/7 points of contact during the planned drift of AMC-18: the SES
Payload Management Operations Center (PMOC) in Woodbine, MD, 1 410 970 7580;
e-mail: PMOC@ses.com and the SES Satellite Control Center in Betzdorf,
Luxembourg; +352 710 725 212; e-mail: soc@ses.com.


                                    Attachment 1

TT&C Frequencies:
Telecommand:    6423.5 MHz Horizontal Polarization (primary)
                6423.5 MHz Vertical Polarization (emergency)

Telemetry:          3700.5 MHz Vertical Polarization(primary)
                    3700.5 MHz Horizontal Polarization (back-up)
                    4199.5 MHz Vertical Polarization (primary)

Earth Station Operating Characteristics
Call Sign:                    E120055 (Mount Airy, MD)
Receive Emission Designator:  500KF9D
Transmit Emission Designator: 1M00F9D
Max EIRP per Carrier:         73.38 dBW
Max EIRP Density:             49.4 dBW/4kHz

Call Sign:                       E000313 (Haleiwa, HI)
Receive Emission Designator:     500KF9D
Transmit Emission Designator:    1M00F9D
Max EIRP per Carrier:            76.58 dBW
Max EIRP Density:                52.6 dBW/4kHz

The EIRP and EIRP density levels specified above are within the maximum EIRP and
EIRP density levels authorized in the current license for each of the earth stations.



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