The FCC International Bureau dismissed Hispamar Satellite’s request to add...
The FCC International Bureau dismissed Hispamar Satellite’s request to add the Amazonas-3 satellite to the FCC’s Permitted Space Station List in the C/Ku/Ka-bands. The petition doesn’t provide certain information required by the commission’s rules, “or request waivers of the rules,…
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which renders the application unacceptable for filing and subject to dismissal,” the Satellite Division said in an order (http://xrl.us/bnj7yo). FCC rules require fixed satellite service satellites in the Ka-band to be capable of switching polarization upon ground command, it said. “Hispamar acknowledges that the Ka-band payload transmission polarization on Amazonas-3 cannot be reversed from the ground.” The satellite company’s exhibits to the application “do not provide the type of showing required and are insufficient to demonstrate that its proposed FSS satellite system will be compatible with the commission’s two-degree orbital spacing requirement,” the order said.