Intelsat requested an additional 60 days for an...

April 7, 2014 |Satellite

Intelsat requested an additional 60 days for an existing special temporary authority to operate Intelsat 706 at 157 degrees east in the C and Ku bands in inclined orbit. Intelsat wants the STA to be effective through June 7, it said in an application to the FCC International Bureau (http://bit.ly/1dYMuGU). O3b Networks requested a 30-day special temporary authority from May 20 to June 29 to test up to three 2.2-meter earth station antennas at a Melbourne, Fla., facility, it said (http://bit.ly/1jc0NqO).