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Echostar I
Long March 2E · Communications
1995Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Mission
EchoStar 1 is an American geostationary communications spacecraft that was launched by a CZ-2E with EPKM upper stage rocket from Xichang Center in Sichuan province, PRC. The 3288 kg spacecraft carries 16 Ku-band transponders to enable direct broadcast communications and television channels through 0.5 meter dishes on the ground in the American continents.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 2E
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2