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Launch Date
7/26/2023
Launch Site
KSC LC39A
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon Heavy (Falcon Heavy Family)
JUPITER 3 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
JUPITER 3 is a geostationary satellite that uses Ka-band spectrum plus Q-band and V-band for gateways.
JUPITER 3 is supported by a cloud-based ground system with a diverse private fiber backbone and network and traffic management that uses AI to monitor traffic and make real-time changes to reduce latency and maximize throughput.
EchoStar Corp. plans to launch the Jupiter 3 broadband satellite in the first quarter of 2022 and has not yet selected a launch provider.
EchoStar originally planned to launch Jupiter 3 in 2021 before the COVID-19 pandemic slowed satellite manufacturing and created uncertainty in the launch market.
Production issues have delayed EchoStar’s Jupiter 3 satellite launch to at least the first half of 2023.
Maxar informed EchoStar on 2022-11-09 that delivery of Jupiter 3 had been delayed another month to 2023-04-27.
The payment relief from Maxar includes about $14,000,000 connected to raising Jupiter 3 to its orbital position following launch.
Maxar must pay EchoStar $10,000,000 for every additional month of delay in Jupiter 3 delivery after September 2023.
EchoStar ordered Jupiter 3 from Maxar in 2017 as part of a $445,000,000 contract.
Maxar Technologies is producing JUPITER 3 at its facility in Palo Alto, California.
Maxar must pay EchoStar damages for every month Jupiter 3 is not delivered after the first half of 2023, totaling $21,000,000 if the satellite is delivered in September 2023.
The updated contract gives EchoStar the right to terminate the agreement from January 2024 and receive more compensation if Jupiter 3 has not been delivered by then.
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.
Echostar ordered Jupiter 3 from Maxar in 2017.
Hughes Network Systems unveiled Jupiter 3, a geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies.
Maxar is expected to ship Jupiter 3 to EchoStar’s Florida launch site in June 2023.
Delivering Jupiter 3 in June 2023 would prevent Maxar from making additional payments to EchoStar under a compensation plan agreed in 2022.
One minute and five seconds before a planned launch on Wednesday, 2023-07-26, SpaceX halted the Jupiter 3 launch with no explanation provided at that time.
The Jupiter 3 satellite, also known as EchoStar 24, is owned by EchoStar, and Hughes pays EchoStar $190 million annually to lease its capacity.