117. Op. cit. supra note 113 at 38. 'Harmful interference' is defined as "Any emission, radiation, or induction which endangers the functioning of a radio navigation service used permanently or temporarily for the safeguarding of human life and property or seriously degrades, obstructs, or repeatedly interrupts a radio communication operated in accordance with the Radio Regulations.“ See Annex 2 to the ITC. 118. Ibid. 119. This conclusion is also supported by unofficial views of ITU functionaries, especially in the IFRB, expressed in the course of interviews conducted in the summer of 1978. 120. The IFRB procedure has been summed up in the following description : 1. Countries proposing to establish a telecommunication satellite system are required, at least five years before the system is brought into use, to notify the International Frequency Registration Board (IFRB) of all the detailed characteristics of the system itself and its satellites (including data on the orbit). Members of ITU, who are kept informed by means of the circulars regularly published by IFRB, can thus protect their interests and co-ordinate their space radio-communications with regard to the position of a satellite in the geostationary satellite orbit. 2. After notification of the use of a frequency assignment by a space station and technical examination of the notice by IFRB, and depending on the Board's findings, the assignment is recorded in the Master Frequency Register. The entry consists of a date in column 2 and a symbol indicating the Board's findings in column 13. In accordance with Article 10 of the International Telecommunication Convention (Malaga-Torremolinos, 1973) the purpose of recording the assignment is to give it formal international recognition. That means that it has to be taken into consideration by other administrations when planning new satellite network projects and by IFRB when examining notices received subsequently, under the terms of the Radio Regulations. See J. Busak, The Geostationary Satellite Orbit:International Cooperation or National Sovereignty?, 45 Telecommunication J. 167 at 168 (April 1978). 121. Solar Satellite Power System Concepts: Hearings Before the Subcomm, on Space Science and Application and the Subcomm, on Energy, Research Development and Demonstration of the House Comm, on Science and Technology, 94th Cong., 2nd Sess. 370 (Comm. Print, 1976).
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