ORIGIN of NOCC

The idea of having domestic geostationary satellite system for India to meet the Telecommunication and TV broadcasting needs of the country was first mooted by Late Dr. Vikram Sarabhai in the 60s. Several studies were conducted before India embarked on building and owning the India National Satellite System- INSAT.

In 1975, at the highest level of the Government, decision was taken that the communication network in India will have a satellite component as part of building the National Infrastructure.

The INSAT programme is joint venture of four agencies of the Government of India, namely Department of Space, Dept. of Telecommunications, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Department of Science and Technology. The overall co-ordination and management of the INSAT system rests with the INSAT Co-ordination Committee (ICC) in which Secretary Department of Space is Chairman and the Secretaries of Dept. of Telecommunications, Ministry of Information , Broadcasting and Department of Science and Technology & other concerned departments are members. The ICC is assisted by inter- agency Technical Advisory Group (TAG).

Network Operations Control Center under Department of Telecommunication created to control the transmissions from ground segment (satellite earth stations) along with the Master control Facility under Department of Space to manage the operation of Satellites (INSAT) in orbit. At the time of operationalisation of INSAT 1 A the NOCC funtions were carried out by using the Sikandrabad Communications Earth Station Antenna and working from one of the ports of the RF power divider. A seperate NOCC earth station was made available in the first half of 1983 when the limited domestic SATCOM network was working through two leased INTELSAT transponders.

NOCC provide the network clearances before start of operations from any earth station accessing Satellite and also carried out the Monitoring and on line operational control & co-ordination.

PRESENT STATUS

As on date seperate 11 metre antnenna for C Band, Extended C Band and Ku Band are available with NOCC along with "Integrated Satelite Network Monitoring System (ISNMS)", C Band, Extended C Band, Ku band and S Band monitoring set ups for 24x7 monitoring, control and cordination for space segment use from India.

FUNCTIONS OF NOCC

• Online Operational control, coordination and Monitoring of all the satellite based services in India .
• Handling Contingency Operations in case of failure of transponder(s)/satellite(s).
• Resolution of RF Interference problems.
• Mandatory Performance Verifications Testing of all the antennae namely providing backbone transmission links, VSATs,DSNG vans, Teleports etc for conforming to latest ITU standards before putting them in operations.
• Career plan approval and uplinking permissions.
• Testing of ISP satellite Gateways & monitoring of transmissions from these gateways.
• Testing of satellite transponder before accepting for operations
• Monitoring of Broadcasters Teleports/DSNG vans.
• Coordination with foreign satellite operators like Thaicom, Intelsat, AsiaSat, PanamSat, Singtel, APSTAR, New Skies which are providing space segment to Indian satellite communication users
• Resolve the problem of interference created by our user(s) or their user(s) to respective satellites
• In- orbit tests of INSAT satellites in coordination with Master Control Facility (MCF) , Hassan
• NOCC provides guidance to almost all the service providers for planning/ commissioning / operation of satellite based Networks
• Spot frequency allocations to all the INSAT users
• Verification & compliance of the terms & conditions of licenses issued by different authorities namely DoT, Ministry of I&B, WPC etc.

NOCC CHARGES

NOCC charges for the use of space segment on pro rata basis @ ` 21 Lac per transponder per annum (36 Mhz) + applicable service tax and cess. (Reference: DoT Letter No. 59-146(2)/2003-SAT Dt. 29.10.2003)

NOCC charges for mandatory Performance Validation Testing of ES/Antenna(e) @ ` 6000 per antenna per trial + applicable service tax and cess.

DOWNLOADS:

1. Simplified procedure for Mandatory Performance VerificationTesting.
2. Annexure-I (Proforma) to Simplified procedure for Mandatory Performance Validation Testing.
3. Proforma for Monthly Operation Report – Teleport Operators.
4. Proforma for Monthly Operation Report – DSNG Operators.
5. Proforma for Monthly Operation Report – DTH Operators.
6. Proforma for Monthly Operation Report – VSAT Operators.

CONTACT

NOCC Sikandrabad Monitoring Station