Communications
ECHOSTAR 21
OperationalCommunicationsGEO
ECHOSTAR 21 is a Echostar Satellite Services, LLC communications satellite, launched on June 8, 2017 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 8, 2017 at 03:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- International Launch Services
- Mission
- Echostar 21
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,795 km
- Periapsis
- 35,778 km
- Inclination
- 1.77°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Echostar Satellite Services, LLC
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 6,871 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2017-032A
- NORAD catalog №
- 42749
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Operational