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EchoStar held a 2.57% stake in OneWeb and had a $190,000,000 gateway production contract with OneWeb.
The OneWeb gateways EchoStar worked on were designed to switch data traffic between satellites at a rate of 10,000 user terminals per second.
The coronavirus pandemic delayed a March launch of two S-band cubesats EchoStar ordered from Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
EchoStar originally planned to launch the Jupiter-3 satellite in 2021 to provide growth capacity over North and South America for its satellite internet business.
EchoStar has sellable U.S. capacity remaining on its Jupiter-2 satellite, which launched in 2016, but that capacity is not near urban centers.
EchoStar’s current best estimate is that the Jupiter-3 satellite will launch in the second half of 2021.
EchoStar reported a $57,700,000 net loss for the quarter ending 2020-03-31.
EchoStar was building and shipping gateway ground stations to OneWeb before OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 2020-03-27.
In 2017, EchoStar and SES lost contact with ailing satellites and were able to restore contact and retire those satellites into graveyard orbit.
Three members of the Satellite Industry Association—AT&T, EchoStar, and Hughes—agreed to participate in the FCC’s Keep Americans Connected initiative announced on 2020-03-13.
EchoStar executives continue to evaluate ways to add capacity while awaiting the launch of Jupiter-3, a half-terabit satellite Maxar Technologies is building for a 2021 launch.
Hughes Network Services generated $1,850,000,000 of EchoStar’s $1,890,000,000 in 2019 revenue.
EchoStar’s subscriber base at the end of 2019 was up 116,000 from the year prior partly due to capacity made available in November on Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.
EchoStar, Khosla Ventures, and OneWeb founder Greg Wyler invested an additional $24,000,000 into Tarana Wireless.
EchoStar briefly lost control of the 20-year-old EchoStar-3 satellite in 2017, creating a collision risk for the Bolivian Space Agency’s nearby Tupak Katari-1 satellite.
Globalstar refinanced $342,000,000 of debt and secured new loans with help from EchoStar to ensure sufficient cash flow through 2025.
Globalstar borrowed $199,000,000 on 2019-11-26 in a financing led by EchoStar and Thermo.
Globalstar is borrowing $199,000,000 through a loan arranged by its controlling shareholder Thermo and fleet operator EchoStar.
EchoStar acquired Helios Wire and ordered two S-band smallsats from Tyvak to secure S-band spectrum rights with international regulators.
EchoStar reported 1.437 million broadband subscribers as of 2019-09-30, of which around 192,000 were in Central and South America.