Communications
ECHOSTAR 16
OperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 2012 at 06:31 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- International Launch Services
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,795 km
- Periapsis
- 35,779 km
- Orbital period
- 1436.12 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Echostar Satellite Services, LLC
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 6,658 kg
- Dry mass
- 3,228 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-065A
- NORAD catalog №
- 39008
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.7932 m²
- Status
- Operational