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Echo 2 was a 41.1 m (135 ft)-diameter balloon satellite, the last launched by Project Echo. A revised inflation system was used for the balloon, to improve its smoothness and sphericity. Echo 2's skin was rigidizable, unlike that of Echo 1.
EchoStar announced August 2, 2017, EchoStar III "experienced an anomaly of unknown origin" during a relocation maneuver in the previous week "that has caused communications with the satellite to be interrupted and intermittent." EchoStar III is now drifting westward at about 0.1 degrees per day, encountering other geostationary satellites.
EchoStar XXIV, also known as Jupiter 3, is a communications satellite operated by Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar company). It provides satellite internet service to customers across North and South America at download speeds of up to 100 Mbps. [4] The satellite was built by Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California.
Hughes Network Systems operates a satellite-based high-speed broadband internet service under the brand HughesNet. As of 2018, Hughes controls 69% of the market for residential satellite-based internet connections, which are mostly used by rural customers out-of-reach of wired infrastructure. [37]
EchoStar Corporation is an American telecommunications company that specializes in providing satellite communication, wireless telecommunications, and internet services.. Its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business are operated from its headquarters in Arapahoe County, Color
NASA's satellite applications program launched the first artificial satellite used for passive relay communications in Echo 1 on 12 August 1960. Echo 1 was an aluminized balloon satellite acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals. Communication signals were bounced off the satellite from one point on Earth to another.
A primarily international satellite with international channels once on 61.5, 121, or 148. Ciel-2: 129: December 10, 2008: Thales Alenia Space Spacebus-4000C4: Replaced EchoStar V at the 129°W orbital location. Owned by Canadian Ciel Satellite Group, DISH leases the entire bandwidth of the Ciel-2 satellite.
EchoStar I was a communications satellite operated by EchoStar. Launched in 1995, it was operated in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 77 degrees west for 12 or 15 years. The company has approved the transfer of the 77 degree west orbital position to QuetzSat as of September 22, 2010. It appears to be retired as of 2023.