Echostar

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Echostar

Program: Echostar. Objective: Communications. Overview: US communciation satellite project. Major Events: .

28 December 1995 Echostar 1 Spacecraft: AS 7000. Mass: 3,288 kg. Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-2E. More details
16 Ku-band transponders. Stationed at 119 deg W.
11 September 1996 Echostar II Spacecraft: AS 7000. Launch Site: Kourou . Launch Vehicle: Ariane 42P. More details
Geostationary at 119.0W.
05 October 1997 Echostar 3 Spacecraft: AS 7000. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Atlas IIAS. More details
Geosynchronous. Stationed over 61.4W Launch vehicle put payload into supersynchronous earth orbit with IFR/MRS trajectory option.
07 May 1998 Echostar 4 Spacecraft: AS 2100. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Proton 8K82K / DM3. More details
Geostationary at 148.0 degrees W.

Last update 12 March 2001.
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