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Report No. SPB-44                                            April 22, 1996

                   SATELLITE POLICY BRANCH INFORMATION:
               APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED FOR FILING/ACTION TAKEN

     The applications listed below have been found, upon initial review, to be acceptable for filing. 
The Commission reserves the right to return any of the applications if, upon further examination, it is
determined the application is not in conformance with the Commission's Rules or its policies.   Petitions,
oppositions and other pleadings filed in response to this notice should conform to Section 25.154 of the
Commission's rules, unless otherwise noted.  47 C.F.R.  25.154.

Sky Station International, Inc.                    File No. 96-SAT-P/LA-96 

Sky Station International, Inc. seeks authority to construct, deploy and operate Sky Station -- a Global
Stratospheric Telecommunications System in the 47.2-47.5 GHz (Earth-to-stratosphere) and 47.9-48.2 GHz
(Stratosphere-to-Earth) frequency bands.   Sky Station proposes to operate a system of 250 geostationary
stratospheric platforms equipped with communications payloads located approximately 30 kilometers above
the Earth.  Proposed services include broadband fixed, mobile and portable digital switched services
worldwide.  In addition, the Sky Station system has been designed to access the Internet's World Wide
Web at 64 kbps data rates, as well as with compressed picturephone service.   

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                  ACTIONS TAKEN ON SATELLITE APPLICATIONS

The following actions were taken by  the Chief, Satellite and Radiocommunication Division:  

Continental Satellite Corporation                     File No. 89-SAT-TC-96

Pro forma transfer of control WAS GRANTED on April 16, 1996 to transfer control of Continental
Satellite Corporation from Loral Corporation and Loral Aerospace Holdings, Inc. to Loral Space &
Communications, Ltd. and Loral SpaceCom DBS, Inc.  This action was taken without prejudice to, and
conditioned on, the outcome of a separate proceeding in which Loral Corporation seeks a declaratory
ruling that neither Section 310(b) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C.  310(b), nor Section 100.11 of
the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  100.11, should bar Loral SpaceCom, a Bermuda Corporation, from
acquiring an indirect controlling interest in the DBS permit of Continental Satellite Corporation.  See File
No. 70-SAT-DR-96, Report No. SPB-40 (released March 20, 1996).

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