The new satellite EchoStar 11 is provided with 29 transpondedores in band Ku and 8 has the mission to replace the old man EchoStar.

Be Launch he was the manager of throwing successfully the satellite EchoStar 11 across the pitcher Zenit-3SL. The satellite EchoStar 11 weighs 5.500 kilograms.

The satellite was constructed by Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, California, and it is designed to last approximately 15 years. It will join the current series of satellites of Dish Network that transmits direct sign of television to clients in the United States.

The pitcher Russian - Ukrainian Zenit-3SL who transports the American satellite was thrown to the space from the floating platform Odyssey installed in the equatorial sector of the Pacific Ocean.

The consortium Is Launch, created in 1995, it is a mixed enterprise which holders are the American company Boeing (40 %), the anglo-Norwegian society Kvaerner (20 %), the Ukrainians Loujnoe and Loujmach (15 % the two) and the Russian society Energy (25 %).

Be Launch it is the only company in the world that realizes spatial throwings from a floating platform placed in an area next to the equator of the Pacific Ocean, with the target to maximize the useful load of the rockets.


(SatCesc, 17/07/08)