1995 · China Aerospace Corporation
Echostar I
successLong March 2E | Echostar I
EchoStar 1 is an American geostationary communications spacecraft that was launched by a CZ-2E with EPKM upper stage rocket from Xichang Center in Sichuan province, PRC. The 3288 kg spacecraft carries 16 Ku-band transponders to enable direct broadcast communications and television channels through 0.5 meter dishes on the ground in the American continents.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 28, 1995 at 11:50 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- Mission
- Echostar I
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit