Feasibility of frequency sharing in the 1 670-1 710 MHz band between the meteorological-satellite service (space-to-Earth) and the mobile-satellite service (Earth-to-space) Question ITU-R 204/7
The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly,
considering
a) that the World Administrative Radio Conference for Dealing with Frequency Allocations in
Certain Parts of the Spectrum (Malaga-Torremolinos, 1992) (WARC-92) has allocated the
1675-1710 MHz band on a primary basis in Region 2 to the mobile-satellite service (MSS)
(Earth-to-space) and maintained the primary status of the meteorological-satellite (MetSat service)
service (space-to-Earth);
b) that each of these two services may be provided by GSO satellite systems and non-GSO
satellite systems;
c) that MetSat operators have agreed to separate the band 1670-1710 MHz into four
sub-bands which are being used and are expected to continue to be used as follows:
1670-1683 MHz: main earth stations at fixed locations for reception of raw image data, data
collection data and spacecraft telemetry from GSO meteorological satellites;
1683-1690 MHz: main earth stations at fixed locations for reception of raw image data, data
collection and spacecraft telemetry from GSO meteorological satellites; user
stations for direct readout from GSO meteorological satellites (GVAR and
S-VISSR) (see Note 1);
1 690-1 698 MHz: user stations for direct readout services from GSO meteorological satellites;
1 698-1 710 MHz: user stations for direct readout services and prerecorded image data at main
earth stations from non-GSO meteorological satellites;
d) that the 1 670-1 690 MHz band is and will continue to be used primarily but not exclusively
by a limited number of main meteorological earth stations (command and data acquisition (CDA))
and the 1 683-1 690 MHz part of the band is and will continue to be used also by direct readout user
stations (GVAR and S-VISSR);
e) that the portion 1 670-1 675 MHz of the band is used by very few main MetSat earth
stations;
f) that there exist thousands of MetSat earth stations in the 1 690-1 710 MHz band, many of
them using small antennas;
g) that for different functions provided by the MetSat service, meteorological earth stations in
the 1 690-1 710 MHz band and in the 1 683-1 690 MHz band can be fixed, mobile or transportable;
h) that Recommendation ITU-R SA.1027 provides sharing criteria for current MetSat systems
using satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO);
j) that Recommendation ITU-R SA.1161 provides sharing criteria for current MetSat systems
using GSO satellites;
k) that MSS earth station transmitters are expected to be deployed near or within a MetSat
service area;
l) that some operators of meteorological satellites plan to increase the channel bandwidths and
revise the frequency assignment plans for new MetSat generations, which would make interleaving
of meteorological and mobile-satellite channels impracticable;
m) that GSO MetSat space stations, which initially serve a certain area, may be relocated from
time to time in order to provide coverage of another area;
n) that Annexes 1, 2, 3 and 4 provide a view pertaining to the technical sharing aspects of the
MetSat and MSS services operating in the 1 670-1 710 MHz band;
o) that mobile-satellite techniques are either available or may be able to be developed to
automatically and dynamically avoid transmissions from earth stations in the vicinity of receiving
MetSat earth stations and that such techniques are described in Annex 3.