JUPITER 3 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Maxar Space Systems manufactured JUPITER 3 at its Northern California facility in Palo Alto, California.
Maxar Space Systems manufactured the JUPITER 3 satellite in its Northern California Palo Alto facility.
JUPITER 3 will join the Hughes JUPITER fleet, which includes two other Maxar-built spacecraft.
Maxar Space Systems handed over operations of the JUPITER 3 satellite to EchoStar on 2023-11-16.
JUPITER 3 includes 14 solar panels that when fully deployed could span the height of a 10-story building.
JUPITER 3 is the largest commercial communications satellite ever manufactured in Maxar Space Systems’ Palo Alto, California facility.
SpaceX launched JUPITER 3 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
JUPITER 3 is built on the Maxar 1300 platform.
Hughes JUPITER 3 is the largest commercial communications satellite ever built and launched in July and will enter service later 2023.
The Hughes In-Flight solution is forward-compatible with the Hughes JUPITER 3 ultra-high-density satellite, which launched in July and will enter service later 2023.
Hughes Network Systems plans to begin work in mid-2024 to install antennas compatible with its Ka-band geostationary (GEO) network, including the Jupiter-3 satellite expected to enter service by the end of 2024.
JUPITER 3 will travel into geosynchronous orbit at 22,380 km (35,786 km) above the Earth to the 95 degrees west orbital slot.
JUPITER 3, also known as EchoStar XXIV, launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A in Florida.
JUPITER 3 is an ultra high-density satellite engineered to deliver gigabytes of connectivity to customers across North and South America.
JUPITER 3 deployed from the launch vehicle and began sending and receiving its first signals on 2023-07-29 at 2:32 a.m. EDT, three hours and twenty-eight minutes after lift-off.
JUPITER 3 will join the Hughes JUPITER fleet, which includes four other Maxar-built spacecraft.
A Falcon Heavy carrying the Jupiter-3 communications satellite was scheduled to launch 2023-07-26 and successfully lifted off on 2023-07-28 after a two-day delay caused by a technical issue.
JUPITER 3 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
JUPITER 3 is built on the Maxar 1300 platform.