Communications
ECHOSTAR 7
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 2002 at 12:43 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIIB →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Echostar VII
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,916 km
- Periapsis
- 35,896 km
- Inclination
- 4°
- Orbital period
- 1442.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Echostar Satellite Services, LLC
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4,027 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,200 kg
- Power
- 13,000 W
- Design lifetime
- 12 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27378
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 20 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational