JUPITER 3 is engineered to deliver gigabytes of connectivity to customers across North and South America.
When fully deployed, JUPITER 3, the largest commercial communications satellite ever built, approaches the wingspan of a commercial airliner.
Some HughesNet plans enabled by JUPITER 3 will offer speeds up to 100 Mbps.
JUPITER 3 is engineered to deliver gigabytes of connectivity to customers across North and South America.
When fully deployed, JUPITER 3 will be the largest commercial communications satellite ever built.
Maxar is expected to ship Jupiter 3 to EchoStar’s Florida launch site in June 2023.
Maxar Technologies experienced production delays that pushed Jupiter 3's original 2021 launch date past 2021.
Jupiter 3 is a Ka-band satellite that would more than double the capacity of Jupiter 2, which launched in 2017.
Delivering Jupiter 3 in June 2023 would prevent Maxar from making additional payments to EchoStar under a compensation plan agreed in 2022.
Jupiter 3 is designed to offer 500 gigabit-per-second Ka-band capacity for North and South America.
Jupiter 3 was originally expected to launch in 2021.
Jupiter 3 will enable Hughes to provide backhaul for mobile network operators throughout Latin America.
Hughes Network Systems unveiled Jupiter 3, a geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies.
Jupiter 3 is planned to begin providing service from 95 degrees west after commissioning is completed in the third quarter.
Echostar ordered Jupiter 3 from Maxar in 2017.
Each gateway for Jupiter 3 will have much higher bandwidth than the gateways that used only Ka-band for Jupiter 1 and Jupiter 2.
Environmental testing is one of the final steps before Jupiter 3 is shipped to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Maxar's delays in delivering the Jupiter 3 broadband satellite to EchoStar resulted in a multi-million dollar compensation package for EchoStar.
Maxar agreed to compensate Echostar for production issues that delayed the Jupiter 3 satellite launch to at least the first half of 2023, two years later than initially planned.
Maxar informed EchoStar on 2022-11-09 that delivery of Jupiter 3 had been delayed another month to 2023-04-27.