Communications
ECHOSTAR 3
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ECHOSTAR 3 is a United States communications satellite, launched on October 5, 1997 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 5, 1997 at 09:01 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Echostar III
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,246 km
- Periapsis
- 36,122 km
- Inclination
- 9.51°
- Orbital period
- 1456.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,125.87 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25004
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 351.1887 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational