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Federal Register: Coordination Between the Non-Geostationary and Geostationary Satellite Orbit

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

The FCC published a new rule on Coordination Between the Non-Geostationary and Geostationary Satellite Orbit (PDF) in today’s Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 17055-17062):

SUMMARY: In this document the Commission specifies rules and procedures to be used for frequency coordination between terrestrial Broadcast Auxiliary Service and Cable Television Relay Service (BAS/CARS) operations and geostationary satellite orbit (GSO) or non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) fixed-satellite service (FSS) operations in the 6875-7075 MHz (7 GHz) and 12750-13250 MHz (13 GHz) bands. At this time the Commission did not adopt a “Growth Zone” proposal that would have supplemented our existing terrestrial coordination procedures between NGSO FSS space-to-Earth operations and existing fixed service (FS) operations in the 10.7-11.7 GHz (10 GHz) band, and will retain our existing coordination rules.