EchoStar XVII

EchoStar 17 ( EchoStar XVII, Jupiter 1) is a commercial communications satellite of Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation.

He was taken on July 5, 2012 at 21:36 UTC by an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, together with the weather satellite MSG-3 in a geostationary orbit.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is equipped with 60 Ka - band transponders and is from the 107.1 ° West of North America position with broadband internet ( data rate 100 Gbps) supply and thereby complement the satellite Spaceway 3. It was built on the basis of the satellite bus SSL 1300 Space Systems / Loral and has a design life of 15 years.