During the evening of Tuesday, September 13, 2011, an operational problem at the
Canadian satellite Ciel-2 ground control station, located in Canada, caused the satellite to lose
earth pointing. This, in turn, resulted in the disruption of service to some DISH Network DBS
subscribers. Service has since been restored. But DISH and EchoStar have been informed by
SES that the process of restoring the satellite with the correct orbital attitude parameters caused
the satellite to drift west. SES is expected to cause the satellite’s drift to stop at 129.2° W.L. on
September 15, 2011. SES will then cause the satellite to drift back to the nominal stationkeeping
box at 128.85° W.L. +/- 0.05°, a drift that it expects to complete by Monday, September
19, 2011. DISH and EchoStar understand that at no time did the satellite veer outside the
128.8°-129.2° W.L. orbital cluster allotted to Canada under the International Telecommunication
Union’s Region 2 Broadcasting-Satellite Service Plan.