Communications
ECHOSTAR 4
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 7, 1998 at 11:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Echostar IV
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,216 km
- Periapsis
- 36,107 km
- Inclination
- 11.73°
- Orbital period
- 1455.28 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-028A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25331
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 16.5995 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational