Saturday, October 20, 2007

Echostar 9

 2003-034A


Echostar IX is a C/Ku LS-1300 satellite. Loral Skynet bought Echostar IX's C-band payload, and refers to it as Telstar 13. Loral Skynet was to operate the satellite at 121W but sold its interest in 2003 to Intelsat as Intelsat Americas 13, renamed Galaxy 23 in 2007.


Echostar 9 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2003 Aug 8  0331:00 Launch by Zenit-3SL   
  T+2:29 st 1 sep 
  T+3:12 Fairing 
  T+8:50 St 2 sep  -2222 x 244 x 0  
 0339:59 T+8:59 DM MES-1 
 0344:34 T+13:34 DM MECO-1  180 x 913 x 0 
 0420:03 T+49:03 MES-2 
 0426:07 T+55:07 MECO-2  756 x 35929 x 0 
 0436:47 T+1:05:47 DM Sep 
  T+6:12:19 Apogee  760 x 35786 x 0 
2003 Aug 8    642.43 713 x 35855 x 0.03 
2003 Aug 9    826.85 9780 x 35826 x 0.06 
2003 Aug 12    1230.58 27231 x 36090 x 0.55 
2003 Aug 13    1390.08 33972 x 35789 x 0.06 
2003 Aug 14    1430.46 35411 x 35936 x 0.1 GEO 123.9W+1.4E 
2003 Aug 16    1434.49 35555 x 35951 x 0.1 GEO 124.0W+0.4E 
2003 Oct 13    1436.07 35776 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 121.0W 
2006 Aug 8    1436.07 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 121.0W 

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