Apply for GBSI authorisation

Information required

Before beginning your application, ensure you have all the required information available, including corporate details of all your partners (details below). The form cannot be saved and must be completed in one sitting.

If you need help, or wish to make an application by post, contact:

NZSpaceAgencyApplications@mbie.govt.nz

Applicant details

You must provide contact details, including:

• address for service
• email address
• phone number

If the applicant is an individual:

• Full legal name
• Contact details
• Nationality or nationalities
• Evidence of identity acceptable to the Minister

If the applicant is a body corporate:

For New Zealand companies, a New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) may be provided in place of some corporate details.

• Legal name
• Contact details
• Legal form
• Registered office address
• Company or incorporation number (if any)
• Country or jurisdiction of incorporation (if not New Zealand)

If the applicant is another type of entity (eg partnership, joint venture):

• Entity name
• Contact details
• Legal form
• Registered office or principal place of business

If there is more than one applicant:

• The above information must be provided for each applicant

Ownership and control interests

Applicants must disclose all persons with a 10% or more ownership or control interest in the applicant.

Individuals

• Legal name
• Percentage holding (%)
• Contact details
• Nationality or nationalities

Body corporates

• Legal name
• Percentage holding (%)
• Registered office address
• Incorporation number (if any)
• Country or jurisdiction of incorporation of the beneficial owner

Infrastructure details

Location

Physical location of the GBSI, described with sufficient detail to uniquely identify the site, e.g., address or coordinates

Technology type

The nature of the technology used (for example: optical, radio, or radar)

Equipment details

Provide details relevant to the technology type:

• Radio technology
  • Number of antennas
  • Size of antennas
  • Frequencies transmitted or received on (frequency ranges or bands are sufficient)
• Optical technology
  • Telescope aperture size
  • Orbital regime to be surveilled
• Radar technology
  • Number of antennas
  • Size of antennas
  • Type of radar (eg phased array, monostatic)
  • Method of radar steering

Details of the regulated activity

The information required depends on whether the GBSI is operated:

• for the applicant’s own purposes; or
• on behalf of, or for the benefit of, another person (a partner).

A partner is anyone on whose behalf, or for whose benefit, you operate GBSI to carry out a regulated activity, such as a customer to whom you are providing ground station services (for example someone who is paying you to communicate with or track a satellite) or a research collaborator.

Description of the regulated activity (all applicants)

Provide a brief description of each regulated activity carried out using the GBSI. Examples of an appropriate level of detail include:

• Communication with space objects for transmitting and receiving mission or communications data.
• Tracking, telemetry and control (TT&C) activities to determine space object position, monitor system status, and maintain operational control.
• Space object surveillance activities to observe and track orbiting objects for operational awareness and safety purposes.

Where more than one regulated activity is carried out, describe each activity separately.

If operating for the applicant’s own purposes:

• Description of the regulated activity
• Description of the relevant space object
• Description of what the space object is or will be used for (e.g. commercial remote sensing, telecommunications)

If operating on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a partner:

• If the partner is a research collaborator:
  • Description of the regulated activity
  • Partner identity information
  • Description of the purpose of the research
• If the partner is not a research collaborator:
  • Description of the regulated activity
  • Partner identity information

Partner identity information must include the following

Note: when asked to provide partner information, if you have a large number of partners (e.g. customers), you may enter their details in a separate Excel template and upload it as part of the form. Download the template:

GBSI Partner information template [XLSX, 19 KB]

Individuals

• Full name
• Nationality
• Country of residence

Body corporates

• Legal name
• Contact details
• Legal form
• Registered office address
• Incorporation number (if any)
• Country or jurisdiction of incorporation (if not New Zealand)

Other entities

• Entity name
• Contact details
• Legal form
• Registered office or principal place of business

Declarations required

Applicants must make declarations in their application confirming that required protective security and, where applicable, partner due diligence arrangements are in place.

MBIE does not need to see the arrangements themselves but may assess them if required. Further detail on what these arrangements should involve is available as part of the broader GBSI guidance:

Ground-based space infrastructure

How your information will be used

Information provided will be used to assess your application under the Act. It may be shared with other government agencies where necessary to support decision-making and statutory functions. Information is treated as confidential but may be subject to disclosure under the Official Information Act 1982. Where appropriate, you will be consulted before information is considered for public release, including on grounds of commercial sensitivity.

For information on how personal information is used, shared, stored and retained, please refer to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment privacy statement.

Privacy

Access the application form

Before opening the online form, please note:

• the form cannot be saved and must be completed in one sitting
• when asked to provide partner information, if you have a large number of partners (e.g. customers), you may enter their details in a separate Excel template and upload it as part of this form. Download the template:
  GBSI Partner information template [XLSX, 19 KB]
• you must be authorised to apply on behalf of the applicant
• the form must be completed in English
• all fields must be completed (enter “NA” if a question does not apply)
• you must notify MBIE as soon as reasonably practicable of any new or changed relevant information

If you are not lawfully entitled to provide certain information, need to make a joint application, or have questions, contact NZSpaceAgencyApplications@mbie.govt.nz before starting.

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