Sec.  25.140   Qualifications of fixed-satellite space station licensees.

   (a) New fixed-satellites shall comply with the requirements established in
   Report and Order, CC Docket No. 81–704 (available at address in  Sec. 0.445 of
   this chapter.) Applications must also meet the requirements in paragraphs
   (b) through (d) of this section. The Commission may require additional or
   different  information  in  the  case  of  any individual application.
   Applications will be unacceptable for filing and will be returned to the
   applicant  if  they  do  not meet the requirements referred to in this
   paragraph.

   (b) Each applicant for a space station authorization in the fixed-satellite
   service must demonstrate, on the basis of the documentation contained in its
   application, that it is legally, technically, and otherwise qualified to
   proceed expeditiously with the construction, launch and/or operation of each
   proposed space station facility immediately upon grant of the requested
   authorization. Each applicant must provide the following information:

   (1) The information specified in  Sec. 25.114; and

   (2) Except as set forth in paragraph (b)(3) of this section, all applicants
   must provide an interference analysis to demonstrate the compatibility of
   their proposed system 2 from any authorized space station. An applicant
   should provide details of its proposed r.f. carriers which it believes
   should be taken into account in this analysis. At a minimum, the applicant
   must  include,  for  each type of r.f. carrier, the link noise budget,
   modulation parameters, and overall link performance analysis. (See, e.g. ,
   appendices  B  and  C  to  Licensing of Space Stations in the Domestic
   Fixed-Satellite Service (available at address in Sec. 0.445)).

   (3) Applicants for licenses for satellites in the 17/24 GHz BSS must provide
   an interference analysis of the kind described in paragraph (b)(2) of this
   section, except that the applicant must demonstrate the compatibility of its
   proposed system 4 ° from any current or future authorized space station in
   the 17/24 GHz BSS that complies with the technical rules in this part. The
   link budget must take into account longitudinal stationkeeping tolerances
   and any existing orbital location offsets from the nominal 17/24 GHz BSS
   orbital locations of the adjacent prior-authorized 17/24 GHz BSS space
   stations.  In addition, any 17/24 GHz BSS satellite applicant that has
   reached a coordination agreement with an operator of another 17/24 GHz BSS
   satellite located up to  ±10 °away to allow that operator to exceed the pfd
   levels specified in the rules for this service, must use those higher pfd
   levels for the purposes of this showing.

   (c) Any space station applicant for a space station authorization in the
   17/24 GHz BSS must design its satellite network to be capable of operating
   with another 17/24 GHz BSS satellite as close as four degrees away from its
   17/24 GHz BSS satellite.

   (d)–(g) [Reserved]

   [ 62 FR 5929 , Feb. 10, 1997, as amended at  68 FR 51504 , Aug. 27, 2003;  72 FR 50028 , Aug. 29, 2007]