QUARTERLY SUMMARY   6 January to 31 March 2026

First Quarter 2026

Every BR IFIC of the quarter, aggregated: the filings, the administrations behind them, and the networks with the broadest coordination reach.

Across 7 biweekly circulars, IFIC 3062 through 3068, the Bureau published 225 coordination requests this quarter, an average of 32.1 per issue. Of these, 166 are GSO and 59 NGSO. Filings came from 39 administrations, led by China with 77 requests, 34 percent of the quarter. Coordination this quarter is invoked most often under 9.13 (21911), 9.12A (14384), 9.12 (3984).

225Filings
166GSO
59NGSO
39Administrations
40,279Coordination pairings
One pairing is one existing network flagged as potentially affected by one new filing.

The 7 circulars in Q1 2026

IFICPublishedFilingsGSO / NGSOPairingsLead network
IFIC 3062 6 January 2026 5 1 / 4 532 AST-NG-C-4
IFIC 3063 20 January 2026 35 20 / 15 6,241 PANDA
IFIC 3064 3 February 2026 30 21 / 9 4,316 TELSTAR-LEO-G1
IFIC 3065 17 February 2026 49 44 / 5 7,586 INSAT-NAV-MEO
IFIC 3066 3 March 2026 61 52 / 9 10,331 CSN-MEO
IFIC 3067 17 March 2026 19 14 / 5 3,122 OMANSAT-54.5E-1
IFIC 3068 31 March 2026 26 14 / 12 8,151 KOREASAT-NGSO-K-M
China 77 United Kingdom 23 United States 16 France 15 Italy 10 Qatar 7 Luxembourg 7 Germany 6 Spain 5 Japan 5 Rep. of Korea 5 United Arab Emirates 4

Highest-coordination filings of the quarter

Ranked by the number of existing networks each new filing was flagged against.

SatelliteAdm.TypePositionIFICReach
KOREASAT-NGSO-K-M Rep. of Korea NGSO NGSO 3068 1,621
LM-BLUESKYNEXUS Cyprus NGSO NGSO 3068 1,571
CSN-SSO China NGSO NGSO 3068 1,382
TELSTAR-LEO-G1 Canada NGSO NGSO 3064 1,327
CSN-MEO China NGSO NGSO 3066 1,230
M-SKYHUB China NGSO NGSO 3068 1,136
PANDA China NGSO NGSO 3063 1,097
GW-A59 China NGSO NGSO 3066 1,057
China filed a cluster of 38 networks in the CHNSAT family (IFIC 3065)
CHNSAT-A-116.8E, CHNSAT-A-117.5W, CHNSAT-A-122.5E, CHNSAT-A-13.6E, CHNSAT-A-141.2E, CHNSAT-A-143.3E, CHNSAT-A-20.5W, CHNSAT-A-22.5E…
China filed a cluster of 12 networks in the CHNNEWSAT family (IFIC 3066)
CHNNEWSAT-G1-101.5E, CHNNEWSAT-G1-118E, CHNNEWSAT-G1-148.2E, CHNNEWSAT-G1-167E, CHNNEWSAT-G1-169E, CHNNEWSAT-G1-171E, CHNNEWSAT-G1-178W, CHNNEWSAT-G1-34E…
United Kingdom filed a cluster of 7 networks in the INMARSAT family (IFIC 3067)
INMARSAT-8-117E5, INMARSAT-8-123W1-R, INMARSAT-8-28W, INMARSAT-8-64E, INMARSAT-8A-160E, INMARSAT-8A-70W, INMARSAT-8A-79W
United States filed a cluster of 6 networks in the USBGB family (IFIC 3064)
USBGB-144W, USBGB-154E, USBGB-30.4W, USBGB-32E, USBGB-87.2W, USBGB-92E
Luxembourg filed a cluster of 6 networks in the LUX family (IFIC 3066)
LUX-73E, LUX-G15-6, LUX-G16-5, LUX-G16-8, LUX-G17-38, LUX-G17-51
United States filed a cluster of 4 networks in the USASAT family (IFIC 3063)
USASAT-30L-4, USASAT-NGSO-12A, USASAT-NGSO-20, USASAT-NGSO-3Y-1
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