Echostar V

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 23 Sept 1999, 06:02 am UTC

Rocket: Atlas IIAS (Atlas)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

EchoStar V and VI are series of two high-powered direct broadcast satellites (DBS) being built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for EchoStar Communications Corporation.