EchoStar
EchoStar Corporation
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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.
satellite | position | COSPAR name | Date, time ( UTC ) | Launcher | Starting place | Satellite bus | Remarks |
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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 |
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Heise News: Satellite TV operator EchoStar buys Sling Media
- ↑ EchoStar in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- ↑ Gunter's Space Page: Echostar 1, 2 (English)
- ↑ a b c d Ciel Satellite Group. In: sky-brokers.com. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Russian rocket brings US communications satellite safely into space. RIA Novosti, accessed March 21, 2010 .
- ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: Echostar 15 launched on Proton-M. raumfahrer.net, July 11, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Falcon 9 with Echostar 23 ready for take-off. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://www.raumfahrer.net/news/raumfahrt/18082017102124.shtml Article by Axel Nantes from August 18, 2017