Attachment Narrative

This document pretains to SES-STA-20190508-00590 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2019050800590_1677800

                                  EXHIBIT 1
                  REQUEST FOR SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY

        DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC (“DIRECTV”) respectfully requests a grant of earth station

special temporary authority (“STA”)1 for 30 days to operate its Castle Rock, Colorado earth

station (Call Sign E930304) to support in-orbit testing (“IOT”) of the T16 satellite (Call Sign

S3039) at 134.75° W.L. DIRECTV requests that this special temporary authority commence

upon arrival of T16 at 134.75° W.L., which is currently anticipated to be on or about June 29,

2019—nine days after the satellite’s scheduled launch on June 20, 2019. The IOT period is

expected to last approximately three weeks, and the subsequent drift to T16’s requested

permanent orbital location of 100.85° W.L.2 is expected to last approximately seven weeks.3

        DIRECTV separately and simultaneously is requesting space station special temporary

authority to conduct IOT of the T16 satellite at 134.75° W.L. to drift the satellite to its requested

permanent location of 100.85° W.L.

        The range of earth station frequencies requested to support IOT of the T16 satellite at

134.75° W.L. are the following:

DBS Ku-band

       12.2-12.7 GHz (space-to-Earth); and

       17.3-17.8 GHz (Earth-to-space).




1
  DIRECTV has filed this STA request, an FCC Form 159, and a $210.00 filing fee
electronically via the International Bureau’s Filing System.
2
 Although T16 is currently authorized to operate at 102.70° W.L., DIRECTV has filed a
modification application to change T16’s authorized orbital location from 102.70° W.L. to
100.85° W.L. See Modification Application to Change T16 Orbital Location (S3039), File No.
SAT-MOD-20190508-00036.
3
  DIRECTV intends to file STA extension requests to cover any testing that exceeds 30 days
from T16’s arrival at 134.75° W.L.
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Telemetry, Tracking, and Command

      12697 MHz and 12698 MHz (space-to-Earth); and

      17789 MHz and 17791 MHz (Earth-to-space).

       The 24/7 emergency contact information is as follows: Steve Dulac at (310) 429-1624.

       Grant of this earth station STA request is in the public interest because it will facilitate

IOT of T16’s payloads at 134.75° W.L., a critical step in ensuring that the satellite will be fully

operational. Accordingly, DIRECTV respectfully requests that the Commission grant this

request.




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Document Modified: 2019-05-08 16:26:15

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