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COMMENT submitted by PanAmSat

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2003-09-17

This document pretains to SAT-AMD-20030730-00149 for Amended Filing on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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ORIGINAL Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS ComMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 RECEIVED Salellite Prrision Int Bureau e. FedealCommuneatont Conmissin on In the Matter of ) Sep 23 203 Medtssme ) Front Office LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION ) ) Amendment of Applications to ) File Nos.: SAT—AMD—20080730 00149/ The Launch and Operate Satellites in ) g/151/1527153 Redio Navigation Service ) CallSigns: 52570;5 sane sa7s ) $EP p 3 4; COMMENTS OF PANAMSAT COI‘(PORATIO!G""Q,, PanAmSat Corporation ("PanAmSat"), by its attorneys, hereby comments on the above—captioned amendment("Amendment") of Lockheed Martin Corporation (‘Lockheed") to its applications for authority to launch and operate a Regional Positioning System global radionavigation satellite service using L—band frequencies PanAmSat‘s comments are limited to Lockheed‘s requests to: (1) change the proposed orbital location of one of its proposed satellites; and (2) use extended C—band frequencies for tracking, telemetry and control ("TT&C") at the new orbital location. PanAmSat has no objection to Lockheed‘s application as amended, but is filing these comments to bring to the Commission‘s attention the need for Lockheed to coordinate these elements of ts Amendment with PanAmSat, " See Public Notice Report No.SAT—00160 (Aug. 18, 2003). Salso File Nos. SAT—LOA—19990427— voo15/a6/47/a9750.

Discussion In its Amendment, Lockheed proposes that one of its space stations be located at 125° W.L. instead of 129° W.L. as initially proposed. Implementation of this proposal will require careful coordination with PanAmSat for stationkeeping purposes, because PanAmSatalready operates Galaxy V, a C—band satellite, at 125° W.L. Furthermore, the Commission has granted special temporary authority for PanAmSat to relocate SBS—4, a Ku—band satellite, to 125° W.L. Thus, Lockheed‘s space station would be the third space station to be located at 125 W.L. PanAmSat and Lockheed already have begun discussions to address the stationkeeping issue, and PanAmSat has every reason to believe these discussions will be successful. Lockheed proposes to use the extended C—band for its TT&C operations at 125° W.L2 This proposal also will require careful coordination with PanAmSat, to avoid out—of band emissions causing interference to PanAmSat‘s transmissions via Galaxy V in the standard C—band. PanAmSat and Lockheed have initiated coordination 2 Se Amendment at Table 411 3 As used in these comments,the standard C:band referto the 37004200 MHz and 5925—6425 MHz frequency bands

«4. discussions concerning this issue as well, and PanAmSat believes that the discussions will be successful. Respectfully submitted, PANAMSAT COJ GOLDBERG, GODLES, WIENER & WRIGHT 1229 Nineteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 425—4900 Its Attorneys September 17, 2003

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 1 hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing was sent by first— class mail, postage prepaid, this 17th day of September 2003, to the following: David . Keir Leventhal Senter & Lerman PLLC 2000 K Street, N.W. Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006—1809 Candace G%


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