Communications
ECHOSTAR 5
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 23, 1999 at 06:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Echostar V
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,236 km
- Periapsis
- 36,204 km
- Inclination
- 11.95°
- Orbital period
- 1458.3 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25913
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 15.8866 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational