BR seminar - Space Workshop - November 2006
Creation of electronic notices
with SpaceCap software
for submissions under Appendices 30, 30A and 30B
Presented by Véronique Glaude
BR/SSD/Space Notification and Plan division
Presentation
Broadcasting Space Service (BSS) Plan and associated feederlink –(Ap30/30A Art.4/5)
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General submission schema and data organization in the SpaceCap software
Exercice
Creation of the AP30/4.1.3 (Part A) electronic submission of
the satellite network R13DN-LINK
Annex1: Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) Plan – (Ap30B Art. 6/8)
Annex2: Space Operating Function (SOF) service – (Ap30/30A Art.2A)
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Ap30/30A – General submission schema
Notices under Articles 4 and 5 of Ap30/30A
submit Appendix 4 (Ap4) data items
SPS
database
Ref situation
and data
published by BR
SPS (Space Plans Systems) database
SpaceCap
software
Electronic
notice
created by
SpaceCap

Contains basic characteristics and reference
situation of the assignments
(Ap30/30A Plans, Lists and Article 4 networks,
notified assignments under Article 5 and SOF
Article 2A)

Similar structure as in SNS (SRS_ALL) database,
with some differences in usage of the tables and
fields
RR Appendix 4
Sent by the submitting
Administration to BR to
be processed
View TSUM
with SpacePub
software
Starting SpaceCap (version 5) software


open an SPS (Space Plans Systems) database
select the “Plan” button (on the top right toolbar)
Note: “Open Plan for Inquiry only” option enables read only access
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Ap30/30A - Data organization in the SpaceCap software (1)
Common data to all frequencies of a network
(satellite name, orbital position…)
Attachments to submission
Notice
(type (Paper, GXT, File), file name, description)
Strapping
(Region 2)
Note: normally filled in through other data entry forms
Attachments
Coordination
Strapping information for Region 2
Agreements reached
Note: captured in the “Coordination” data entry form
Satellite beam characteristics
Beam 1
Beam 2
Beam 3
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
(satellite antenna gain, boresight…)
Groups of frequencies
(common characteristics such as polarization type and
service area…)
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Ap30/30A - Data organization in the SpaceCap software (2)
Group 2
Group 1
Emission characteristics of a specific group
(frequencies, power and modulation characteristics)
Group 3
Emission /
Frequencies
Modulation
characteristics
Srv Area /
Typical Antenna
Service area, test points and typical earth station
antenna characteristics of a specific group
Specific earth station antenna characteristics of a
certain group in the case of feeder-link only (if any)
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Assoc Specific
Earth Ant.
Assoc Specific
Earth Ant.
(feeder-link only)
(feeder-link only)
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EXERCICE
Creation of the AP30/4.1.3 (Part A) electronic submission of
the satellite network R13DN-LINK
Before starting:

BR space softwares installation required:
SpaceCap, SpacePub, IDWMlight, GIMS
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Printing a “paper copy” of the notice: SpCap_AP30_exercice.rtf
Starting: SpaceCap
The exercise consists of:
1.
Capturing in SpaceCap the data of the “paper copy”
2.
Creating with SpacePub the TSUM of the notice with the data captured
3.
The TSUM created should be identical to the “paper copy”
Solution: SpCap_AP30_solution.mdb
“Step by step” data capture with tips on next slides…
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Set
Template
to PLAN
Set
PLAN ID
Select New
Notice
Depending of the notice type,
“beam identification”
or “notice ID”
of previously published notices
at least one “Group” of one “Beam”
must be captured previously.
For full-time operation = 0 to 24
List from the APL
reference library
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If blank, no MSPACE internal
grouping applicable
Select Common
data
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Common data
Close to capture other data…
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Automatic
calculation
As defined in
Appendix 1
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Click to capture
modulation
characteristic
data…
Automatic calculation of
channel number from frequency
or
Frequency from channel number
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Modulation Characteristics
List of references
proposed
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Up to 20 test points
within the service area
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List of attachments to
the submission
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List of agreements obtained
from other adminsitrations
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Creating a TSUM
with SpacePub
Electronic notice ready
to be submitted to BR
Ap4 data capture observation concerning specific items
to Articles 4 and 5 of Ap30/30A (1)
SpaceCap
Data Entry
Form
Notice
Annex 2 to Ap4
Data Item
No.
Description
A.1.b
Beam
identification
Observation
Required only in the following submissions:
- § 4.1.27 of Article 4 of Ap30/30A
- § 4.2.6 of Article 4 of Ap30/30A in the case of modification to existing assignments
in the Region 2 Plan
- § 4.2.24 of Article 4 of Ap30/30A for the suppression of existing assignments
in the Region 2 Plan
- § 5.1.2 of Article 5 of Ap30 and § 5.1.6 of Article 5 of Ap30A in the case of notification
of Plan assignments
- § 4 of the Annex to Resolution 42
Notice
A.11
Regular hours of
operation (UTC)
Before capturing this data item, at least one “Group” of one “Beam” must be captured.
For full-time operation, 0 to 24 should be indicated
Notice
A.13c
A.13d
Notice ID of the
corresponding
network previously
processed under
Article 4/5 of
Ap30/30A
Article 4:
- modification to a network in the Regions 1 and 3 List or to a network already successfully
entered into the Region 2 Plan
- cancellation of a Plan, List or Article 4 network
- submission of the final characteristics of a network under § 4.1.12 or
§ 4.2.16 of Article 4 of Ap30/30A
Article 5:
- notification of a network in the Regions 1 and 3 Plan or List or a network already entered into
the Region 2 Plan
- cancellation of previously notified assignments
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Ap4 data capture observation concerning specific items
to Articles 4 and 5 of Ap30/30A (2)
SpaceCap
Data Entry
Form
Emissions/
Frequencies
of Group
Annex 2 to AP4
Data Item
No.
Description
Observation
C.2.a.2
1/ If the user enters first the channel number, the corresponding center frequency in the Plan
will be set by SpaceCap and then can be modified by the user.
Channel
number
2/ If the user enters first the frequency (freq), the corresponding channel (cha) is calculated
using the following formula:
Cha = Integer((Freq + Cha_Spacing / 2 – Plan_Freq) / Cha_Spacing) + 1
Where:
Freq: center frequency of the assignment (C.2.a.1);
Chan_Spacing: 19.18 MHz for Regions 1 and 3; 14.58 MHz for Region 2;
Plan_Freq: center frequency of channel 1 of the Plans as follows:
Regions 1 and 3:
Downlink: 11727.48 MHz
Feeder-link (14GHz): 14525.30 MHz
Feeder-link (17GHz): 17327.48MHz
Region 2:
Downlink: 12224.00 MHz
Feeder-link: 17324.00 MHz
Emissions/
Frequencies
of Group
C.8.b.1
C.8.b.2
C.8.h
Total power
and power
density values
For digital emissions, if the power density field is empty, a default value (assuming uniform
distribution of the power over the necessary bandwidth) is calculated once the total power is
entered using the following formula:
pwr-10log(B)
Where:
pwr: total power
B: necessary bandwidth
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Ap4 data capture observation concerning specific items
to Articles 4 and 5 of Ap30/30A (3)
SpaceCap
Data Entry
Form
Annex 2 to Ap4
Data Item
No. Description
Observation
Modulation
characteristics
A.12
Range of
automatic gain
control
See also observation on item C.9.b
Modulation
characteristics
C.9.b
Modulation
characteristics
To open this form, click on the corresponding designation of emission on the
“Emissions/Frequencies” form.
To copy the modulation characteristics of a specific designation of emission into all corresponding
emissions, activate option on the “Modulation characteristics” form:
“Apply these characteristics to all emissions in all groups of this notice with the same designation of
emission”
Group
C.15.a
MSPACE group
identification
code
Application of internal grouping: Article 4 assignments are usually grouped with the co-channel and
co-orbital position assignments of the responsible administration in the Plan, or List, or other
previously submitted Article 4 assignments of the same administration.
Note: Not applicable when the coverage areas are largely separated! This issue should be clarified in
the telefax or e-mail corresponding to the submission.
For describing the internal grouping of the assignments of the network, a MSPACE software group
code (MSPACEgrp) should be assigned to this item for each group of assignments on the “Group” form
of SpaceCap software (SCAPgrp). If this field is blank, it is understood that no MSPACE internal
grouping is applicable to the assignments of the corresponding SCAPgrp.
Note: Multiple MSPACE grouping for a specific assignment is not possible. For instance, if assignment
A should be grouped with assignments B and C, these two assignments have also to be grouped since
they shall have the same MSPACEgrp of assignment A.
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Ap4 data capture observation concerning specific items
to Articles 4 and 5 of Ap30/30A (4)
SpaceCap
Data Entry
Form
Strapping
No.
D.1.a
Annex 2 to Ap4
Data Item
Description
Observation
Connection between uplink
and downlink frequency
assignments in each
transponder
for each intended
combination of receiving
and transmitting beams
Only for submissions in Region 2 where OEPM (overall downlink and feeder-link
Equivalent Protection Margin calculation) applicable.
After capturing all assignments of all downlink and feeder-link beams, the “Strap
wizard” on the “Strapping” form should be used to connect downlink and feederlink assignments.
Notes:
1/ Before each click on “Strap” button, only one connection on the following
slide shall be selected!
2/ Before exiting that form, click “Validation” button to verify that all
assignments for all downlink and feeder-link channels have strapped!
For recording the intermediate changes into the database, click “Finish” button.
Then click “Validate” button.
At the end, the “Strapping” tab or the notice itself shall be closed in order to
save changes and update the internal table beam_tr in the working database.
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Ap4 data capture observation concerning strapping method
to Articles 4 and 5 of Ap30/30A
Strapping
method
Description
Example
Condition
Downlink Beam
channels
Feeder-link
Beam channels
Beam level
strapping
Connecting one downlink
beam to a feeder-link
beam
For each downlink group of
frequencies, a feeder-link group
with frequencies having the same
downlink channel number shall
exist and vice-versa.
Beam: Bmdl
Grp1: 1, 3, 5, 7
Grp2: 2, 4, 6, 8
Beam: Bmfl
Grp3: 1, 3, 5, 7
Grp4: 2, 4, 6, 8
Group level
strapping
Connecting one downlink
group of frequencies to a
feeder-link group of
frequencies
The channel numbers of the
downlink group shall be equal to
those of the feeder-link group.
Beam: Bmdl
Grp1: 1, 3, 5, 7
Beam: Bmfl
Grp3: 1, 3, 5, 7
Assignment
level
strapping
Connecting one downlink
frequency to a feeder-link
frequency
Any downlink channel can be
connected to any feeder-link
channels.
Beam: Bmdl
Grp1: 3
Beam: Bmfl
Grp4: 6
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Annex 1
Fixed Space Service (FSS) Plan
Creation of electronic submissions
Appendix 4 information submitted under
Articles 6 and 8 of Appendix 30B (Ap30B)
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FSS Plan – Art.6 and 8 of Ap30B
Data organization in the SpaceCap software (1)
Common data to all frequencies of a network
Notice
(satellite name, orbital position,
Predetermined Arc…)
Strapping
Attachments
Coordination
Diagrams data
(type (Paper, GXT, File), file name, description)
Note: normally filled in through other data entry forms
Agreements reached
Note: captured in the “Coordination” data entry form
Beam 1
Beam 2
Beam 3
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Antenna beam characteristics
(satellite antenna gain, boresight…)
Groups of frequencies
(common characteristics, service area…)
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FSS Plan – Art.6 and 8 of Ap30B
Data organization in the SpaceCap software (2)
Group 2
Group 1
Group 3
Emission characteristics of a specific group
(frequency bands available for 4500-4800MHz,6725-7025MHz,
10.70-10.95GHz, 11.20-11.45GHz, 12.75-13.25GHz,
Emission /
Frequencies
noise temperature (C/I protection ratio), power…)
Service area, test points and typical earth station antenna
characteristics of a specific group
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Annex 2
Space Operating Function (SOF) Service
Creation of electronic submissions
Appendix 4 information submitted under
Articles 2A Appendices 30 and 30A (Ap30/30A)
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SOF – Art.2A of Ap30/30A
Data organization in the SpaceCap software (1)
Common data to all frequencies of a network
(satellite name, orbital position…)
Notice
Diagrams data
Station
(type (Paper, GXT, File), file name, description)
Strapping
(optional)
Noise
Gamma
Attachments
Note: normally filled in through other data entry forms
Antenna beam characteristics
(satellite antenna gain, boresight…)
Beam 1
Beam 2
Beam 3
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Groups of frequencies
(common characteristics such as polarization type
and service area…)
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SOF – Art.2A of Ap30/30A
Data organization in the SpaceCap software (2)
Group 1
Emission characteristics of a specific group
(frequency guard bands available)
Group 2
Group 3
Emission
Frequencies
Agreements reached
Note: captured in the “Coordination”
data entry form
Coordination
Special
Section
Associated earth station
antenna characteristics of a specific group
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Earth Station
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Web links for further information
Creation of electronic Ap30/30A notices with SpaceCap software:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/space/plans/FAQ/SpaceCap5.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/software/space/spacecap/index.html
SPS databases:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/space/plans/AP30-30A/index.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/space/plans/MIFR/index.html
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Your questions are welcome!
veronique.glaude@itu.int
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