- Home
- Spacecraft
- EchoStar III
EchoStar III
Retired geostationary communications satellite. EchoStar III was launched on October 5, 1997 aboard a Atlas IIAS from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1997-059ANORAD 25004United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Echostar III
- Common name
- EchoStar III
- Payload designation
- Echostar 3
- International designator
- 1997-059A
- NORAD catalog number
- 25004
- GCAT identifier
- S25004
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/339
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Echostar
- Owner
- Echostar
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems/Sunnyvale
- Platform (bus)
- A2100
Launch
- Date
- October 5, 1997 · 21:01 UTC
- Launch record
- 1997-059Success
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC36B
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/S
- Perigee
- 35,775 km
- Apogee
- 35,796 km
- Inclination
- 0.01°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- August 2017
- End of operations
- Aug 21, 2017
Size
- Mass
- 3,670 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,600 kg
- Length
- 2.6 m
- Diameter
- 2.00 m
- Span
- 22.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q18327697 (CC0).