EchoStar

EchoStar Corporation
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	US2787681061
founding	1980
Seat	Englewood , Colorado, United States
Number of employees	4200 (2011)
sales	$ 2.8 billion (2011)
Branch	telecommunications
Website	www.echostar.com

EchoStar is the name of a US technology company (EchoStar Corporation) that also owns and operates the satellite fleet of the same name . The company also designs and produces set-top boxes for receiving DVB-T in Great Britain , receivers for Bell ExpressVu and the HD recorder from Unitymedia, a German subsidiary of Liberty Global, which is also based in Englewood. The satellites form the basis of Dish Networks (Digital Sky Highway) television satellite service from Dish Network Corporation . The company was previously part of the EchoStar Communications Corporation before the DISH Network became independent in December 2007.

history

EchoStar was founded in 1980 by its chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen and his wife Cantey and James DeFranco as a distributor of C-band - television systems established. In 1987 the company acquired the license for a television satellite service from the FCC and was assigned the orbital slot at 119 ° west longitude for 1992.

On December 28, 1995, EchoStar successfully launched its first satellite, EchoStar 1 . From the same year the satellite television system was marketed under the name DISH Network .

In 1998 the company bought parts of the satellite broadcasting joint venture of the news agencies ASkyB and MCI WorldCom . With this purchase, EchoStar received 28 of the 32 transponder licenses for the orbital slot at 110 ° West. On September 25, 2007 it was announced that EchoStar is acquiring Sling Media Inc.

On January 2, 2008, the Dish Network business was separated from the rest of the company's operations, creating two companies: the DISH Network Corporation (consisting essentially of the DISH Network business) and the Echostar Corporation (which manages the technology business including satellites, Sling Media and the set-top box development reserves).

Satellite fleet

The satellites were purchased from several manufacturers and sometimes differ considerably in their technical data.

Dish Network satellites

satellite	position	COSPAR name	Date, time ( UTC )	Launcher	Starting place	Satellite bus	Remarks
EchoStar 1	148 ° W	1995-073A	December 28, 1995 11:50 am	CZ-2E	Xichang Cosmodrome	Lockheed Martin AS-7000	Weight: 3,287 kg, 16 Ku-band transponders, one receiving and two transmitting antennas, primary power more than 7 kW
EchoStar 2	148 ° W	1996-055A	September 11, 1996 12:00 AM	Ariane 42P	CSG	Lockheed Martin AS-7000	Weight: 2,885 kg, 16 Ku-band transponders, one receiving and two transmitting antennas, primary power more than 7 kW
EchoStar 3	61.5 ° W	1997-059A	October 5, 1997 9:01 PM	Atlas IIAS	CCAFS	Lockheed Martin A2100AX	Weight: 3,674 kg, 32 transponders, one receiving and two transmitting antennas, primary power more than 10 kW On September 6, 2017, the EchoStar Corporation announced that the satellite had been decommissioned and had been placed in a cemetery orbit. See also end of EchoStar 3
EchoStar 4	77 ° W	1998-028A	May 7, 1998 11:45 PM	Proton / Blok-DM-2M	Baikonur	Lockheed Martin A2100AX	EchoStar 4 does not have a license to supply the USA at 77 ° W. EchoStar has moved the satellite to this position reserved for Mexico in order to be able to offer telecommunications services there too. Since May 1999 there have been problems with the transponders and the power supply of the satellite. Currently only six of the transponders are working. Weight: 3,678 kg, 32 transponders, one receiving and two transmitting antennas, primary power more than 10 kW
EchoStar 5	129 ° W	1999-050A	September 23, 1999 6:02 am	Atlas IIAS	CCAFS	Space Systems / Loral  LS-1300	Originally ordered as Sky 1A, mass: 3,602 kg, 32 Ku-band transponders each 125 watts of power, whereby two transponders can be interconnected so that the operation of 16 transponders with 250 watts each is possible. The satellite has one receiving and two transmitting antennas, primary power more than 10 kW, planned service life 12 years. In March 2005 the satellite was leased to the Canadian Ciel Satellite Group and moved to a cemetery orbit after the end of life in 2009 .
EchoStar 6	110 ° W	2000-038A	July 14, 2000 5:21 am	Atlas IIAS	CCAFS	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	Originally ordered as Sky 1B, mass: 3,700 kg, 32 Ku-band transponders each 125 watts of power, whereby two transponders can be interconnected so that the operation of 16 transponders with 250 watts each is possible. The satellite has one receiving and two transmitting antennas, primary power more than 11 kW, planned service life 12 years, leased in 2013 to the Bermuda Telephone Company as Bermudasat-1
EchoStar 7	119 ° W	2002-006A	February 21, 2002 12:43 PM	Atlas IIIB	CCAFS	Lockheed Martin A2100AX	Weight: 4,027 kg, 32 cones + Spot-Beam Ku-Band transponders with 120 watts of power each, whereby two transponders can be interconnected, so that 16 transponders with 240 watts of transmit power each can be operated. The satellite has one receiving and four transmitting antennas (2 spot beams), primary power more than 13 kW, planned service life 12 years. Deactivated April 2010
EchoStar 8	110 ° W	2002-039A	August 21, 2002 5:15 am	Proton / Blok DM-3	Baikonur	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	Weight: 4,660 kg, 32 cones (16 double the output of 250 watts) + 25 spot-beam Ku-band transponders, one receiving and four transmitting antennas (2 spot-beams), primary output more than 10 kW, planned service life 15 years. Deactivated and in cemetery orbit since April 2016.
EchoStar 9 (Galaxy 23 Telstar 13)	121 ° W	2003-034A	August 8, 2003 5:15 am	Zenit-3SL	Kiritimati	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	For end customers, special SuperDISH-121 receivers are necessary for this satellite, as it only transmits with medium signal strength. The satellite is used jointly by EchoStar and Intelsat , with the 32 K u band (120 watts transmission power) and 2 K a band transponders (currently not used) from EchoStar and the 24 C band transponders from Intelsat (as Galaxy 23 , formerly used by Loral Skynet as Telstar 13). Mass: 4,737 kg, planned service life 15 years
EchoStar 10	110 ° W	2006-003A	February 15, 2006 11:35 PM	Zenit-3SL	Kiritimati	Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space A2100AX	Weight: 4,333 kg, 42 Ku-band transponders, planned service life 15 years
EchoStar 11	110 ° W	2008-035A	July 16, 2008 5:20 am	Zenit-3SL	Kiritimati	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	Ordered on May 9, 2006 Weight: 5,511 kg, Ku-band transponder, planned service life 15 years
EchoStar 12 Rainbow 1	61.5 ° W	2003-033A	July 17, 2003 11:45 PM	Atlas V	CCAFS	Lockheed-Martin AS-2100AXS	Rainbow 1 was launched for the Cablevision / Rainbow television satellite network and used for the Voom television satellite network at position 61.5 ° W until the satellite and transponder licenses were sold to EchoStar in 2005. In March 2006 it was renamed EchoStar 12. Together with EchoStar 3, it is now in position 61.5 ° W. Weight: 4,328 kg, life expectancy 18 years, 36 Ku-band transponders with 24 MHz bandwidth and 135/65 watt power per transponder, 22 programmable spot beams, planned Lifespan 18 years
EchoStar 13 CMBStar 1						Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	Ordered on June 30, 2006, structure similar to ICO-G1 , stopped in May 2008
EchoStar 14	119 ° W	2010-010A	March 20, 2010 6:27 PM	Proton-M / Bris-M	Baikonur	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	Appointed in January 2007
EchoStar 15	61.5 ° W	2010-034A	July 10, 2010 6:40 pm	Proton-M / Bris-M	Baikonur	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300	Appointed in April 2008
EchoStar 16	61.5 ° W	2012-065A	November 20, 2012 6:31 PM	Proton-M / Bris-M	Baikonur	Space Systems / Loral FS-1300
EchoStar 17	107 ° W	2012-035A	July 5, 2012 9:36 PM	Ariane 5	CSG	Space Systems / Loral SSL 1300
EchoStar 18		2016-039B	June 18, 2016 21:38	Ariane 5	CSG	Space Systems / Loral SSL 1300
EchoStar 19		2016-079A	December 18, 2016 7:13 pm	Atlas V	CCAFS	Space Systems / Loral SSL 1300
EchoStar 21		2017-032A	June 8, 2017	proton	Baikonur	Space Systems / Loral SSL 1300
EchoStar 23		2017-014A	March 16, 2017 6:00 am	Falcon 9	KSC	Space Systems / Loral SSL 1300	Weight: 5,500 kg, 32 Ku-band transponders, primary power 15 kW, planned position in GEO 44.9 degrees west, planned service life 15 years

10.25E 45 ° W 61.5 ° W 77 ° W 107 ° W 110 ° W 119 ° W 121 ° W 129 ° W 148 ° W

Orbital positions from EchoStar

End of EchoStar 3

Incident: On August 2, 2017, EchoStar Corporation announced that there was a problem with a planned relocation of the EchoStar 3 satellite to another sector and that there would be a loss of communication and control with that satellite. Decommissioning: On September 6, the company announced that it had succeeded in parking the satellite with empty tanks, pressure vessels and batteries and switched off control in a cemetery orbit 350 km above geostationary orbit. According to observers, the incident resulted from the failure of the satellite to stabilize its position. Furthermore, there would have been problems with failed transmitter tubes and the power supply for a long time .

Web links

• Official website
• EchoStar Europe
• DishNetWork
• LyngSat: precise information on the positions, channels and frequencies of the individual satellites
• Dish Network Corporation company profile on mediadb.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diane Dilov-Schultheis: DISH Network. (No longer available online.) Essortment.com, archived from the original on May 22, 2012 ; accessed on September 17, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Heise News: Satellite TV operator EchoStar buys Sling Media
3. ↑ EchoStar in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
4. ↑ Gunter's Space Page: Echostar 1, 2 (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ciel Satellite Group. In: sky-brokers.com. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Russian rocket brings US communications satellite safely into space. RIA Novosti, accessed March 21, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: Echostar 15 launched on Proton-M. raumfahrer.net, July 11, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Falcon 9 with Echostar 23 ready for take-off. Retrieved March 13, 2017 . 
9. ↑ https://www.echostar.com/en/Press/Newsandmedia/EchoStar%20III%20Satellite%20Experiences%20Anomaly%20During%20Move.aspx Press release of the EchoStar Corporation from August 2, 2017 on the loss of control over EchoStar 3
10. ↑ https://www.echostar.com/en/Press/Newsandmedia/EchoStar%20III%20Satellite%20Recovered%20and%20Retired.aspx Press release of the EchoStar Corporation from September 6th 2017 on the decommissioning of EchoStar 3
11. ↑ https://www.raumfahrer.net/news/raumfahrt/18082017102124.shtml Article by Axel Nantes from August 18, 2017