QUARTERLY SUMMARY   14 April to 23 June 2026

Second Quarter 2026

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

Across 6 biweekly circulars, IFIC 3069 through 3074, the Bureau published 202 coordination requests this quarter, an average of 33.7 per issue. Of these, 125 are GSO and 77 NGSO. Filings came from 30 administrations, led by China with 43 requests, 21 percent of the quarter. Coordination this quarter is invoked most often under 9.12A (26964), 9.13 (14040), 9.12 (6804).

202Filings
125GSO
77NGSO
30Administrations
47,808Coordination pairings
One pairing is one existing network flagged as potentially affected by one new filing.

The 6 circulars in Q2 2026

IFICPublishedFilingsGSO / NGSOPairingsLead network
IFIC 3069 14 April 2026 59 46 / 13 6,133 HISPASAT-LEO-BB-3
IFIC 3070 28 April 2026 22 14 / 8 9,495 TERRESTAR-NGSO-1
IFIC 3071 12 May 2026 24 17 / 7 3,417 ARABSAT-12Y-9W
IFIC 3072 26 May 2026 30 11 / 19 9,481 VISTA-1
IFIC 3073 9 June 2026 27 18 / 9 6,844 CANARYSAT
IFIC 3074 23 June 2026 40 19 / 21 12,438 USASAT-NGSO-8F
China 43 France 19 United States 17 Spain 15 Japan 13 United Kingdom 12 Saudi Arabia 9 Russia 9 India 9 Canada 9 Germany 6 Rep. of Korea 6

Highest-coordination filings of the quarter

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

SatelliteAdm.TypePositionIFICReach
VISTA-1 United Kingdom NGSO NGSO 3072 1,481
KOREASAT-MEO-K Rep. of Korea NGSO NGSO 3072 1,478
TERRESTAR-NGSO-1 Canada NGSO NGSO 3070 1,441
HISPASAT-LEO-BB-3 Spain NGSO NGSO 3069 1,399
RASSVET-3 Russia NGSO NGSO 3070 1,353
USASAT-NGSO-8F United States NGSO NGSO 3074 1,324
USASAT-NGSO-8E United States NGSO NGSO 3074 1,320
LUX-N1-2 Luxembourg NGSO NGSO 3069 1,307
Japan filed a cluster of 11 networks in the N family (IFIC 3069)
N-SAT-Y18-127W, N-SAT-Y18-128E, N-SAT-Y18-132E, N-SAT-Y18-136E, N-SAT-Y18-143W, N-SAT-Y18-144E, N-SAT-Y18-150E, N-SAT-Y18-162E…
France filed a cluster of 7 networks in the F family (IFIC 3073)
F-SAT-N12-111W, F-SAT-N12-115W, F-SAT-N12-12.5W, F-SAT-N12-16E, F-SAT-N12-66E, F-SAT-N12-95W, F-SAT-N3-10E
Saudi Arabia filed a cluster of 6 networks in the ARABSAT family (IFIC 3071)
ARABSAT-12F-44.5E, ARABSAT-12G-1E, ARABSAT-12N-14.7E, ARABSAT-12P-67.5E, ARABSAT-12Q-58.5E, ARABSAT-12Y-9W
United States filed a cluster of 6 networks in the USASAT family (IFIC 3074)
USASAT-28R, USASAT-NGSO-12, USASAT-NGSO-3X, USASAT-NGSO-3Y-1, USASAT-NGSO-8E, USASAT-NGSO-8F
United States filed a cluster of 4 networks in the USASAT family (IFIC 3069)
USASAT-61E, USASAT-NGSO-25, USASAT-NGSO-4C, USASAT-NGSO-8A
Russia filed a cluster of 4 networks in the TOR family (IFIC 3069)
TOR-10R, TOR-13R, TOR-1R, TOR-5R
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