CRAF-99-5Esf-Iridium LLC Agreement • January 5th, 2021
The ESF-Iridium LLC agreement for the period 1 May 1999 – 1 January 2000 contains in an annex a detailed workplan to explore existing factors, new techniques and system improvements which will remove the need for operational restraints from the Iridium system as of 1st January 2006. These will include, but are not limited to (1) development of an understanding of actual interference effects from Iridium to radio astronomy observations, (2) changes which could be made to the future generation Iridium spacecraft to reduce unwanted emissions into the radio astronomy band 1610.6-1613.8 MHz, and (3) changes which could be made to reduce the susceptibility of radio astronomy observations to interference (clause 1f of the agreement).
