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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEchoStar Communications Corp. Intends to launch its fourth satellite on May S from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Broadcasting & Cable, April, 1998
EchoStar Communications Corp. Intends to launch its fourth satellite on May S from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of EchoStar IV is about two months later than originally planned, primarily because of scheduling issues. EchoStar has a window at 6:10-6:20 am. Baikonur local time (8:10-8:20 a.m.
ET, May 7) for the launch, which will on a Russian-built Proton rocket. EchoStar has asked for FCC approval to park EchoStar IV at 119 degrees west longitude, where it will pair with EchoStar II to offer video, audio and data services. Pending FCC approval, the company intends to move EchoStar I from 119 degrees to 148 degrees west longitude and to use it from there to begin delivering local-into-local programming to 10 additional major metropolitan...
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