28 December 1995, 11:50 UTC
Echostar I
Deployed EchoStar 1, the first satellite for the EchoStar direct-to-home television service in North America, carrying 16 Ku-band transponders. It was the final flight of the Long March 2E rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.3 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Long March 2E flights
- Date and time
- 28 December 1995, 11:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2E
- Builder
- CASC
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-073
- Launches in 1995
- 79th of 80
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