Echostar 15 Moves to 119W

[nelson61]

Dish has filed to move Echostar 15 (launched July 2010) from the nominal 61.5W slot to 119W.
Echostar 15 is a Conus satellite.

"At the nominal 119º W.L. orbital location, EchoStar currently uses one satellite in the DBS band – the EchoStar 14 satellite – and one in the Fixed Satellite Service spectrum – Anik F3. Once moved from 61.65º W.L. to 118.8º W.L., EchoStar15 will begin active operations as EchoStar migrates services from the older EchoStar 14 satellite."

FCC file location:

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[syphix]

Both Echostar 14 & 15 were launched in 2010, each with a 15 year lifespan. Echostar 15 is only four months younger, but significantly lighter (5,521kg vs 6,384 kg).

How else is it different? More bandwidth?

 

[MikeD-C05]

Both Echostar 14 & 15 were launched in 2010, each with a 15 year lifespan. Echostar 15 is only four months younger, but significantly lighter (5,521kg vs 6,384 kg).

How else is it different? More bandwidth?

Sounds like the time is running out on the older satellite so they are moving it out of necessity. I doubt they will be launching any more satellites for DISH anymore. Just using the ones they have till the service goes out.

 

[nelson61]

They have asked for authorization no later than March 31

 

[telstar_1]

Sounds like the time is running out on the older satellite so they are moving it out of necessity. I doubt they will be launching any more satellites for DISH anymore. Just using the ones they have till the service goes out.

But if both same age and life projection, why one taking over for other, unless something amiss with the one? Also, wouldn't it burn significant fuel to move from 61 to 119, thus reducing on-station life? Sounds more like would be a situation of getting a redundancy backup into position, if not simply to increase total bandwidth @ 119 and/or 110

 

[nelson61]

The filing indicates anticipated life to 2028 for Echostar 15 - 18 years from launch.

 

[navychop]

Moving from one orbital slot to another uses little fuel.

Don't they already have another satellite on order?

 

[nelson61]

Planning to take 4 months to make the move.so it will have minimal change in altitude during travel to conserve fuel.

 

[nelson61]

Don't they already have another satellite on order?

E25. - planned for 2026 launch

 

[charlesrshell]

E25. - planned for 2026 launch

Is it for TV?

 

[nelson61]

Yes

 

[MikeD-C05]

Yes

IS it for DISH or Echostar to use for other services they have in Europe?

 

[Bobby]

IS it for DISH or Echostar to use for other services they have in Europe?

Going to 119 is along way off for viewing in Europe.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Going to 119 is along way off for viewing in Europe.

I meant, was the new satellite they ordered - for DISH use or Echostar service in Europe? Because if they are still ordering satellites for DISH, then the intend on using the sat service a bit longer for customers.

 

[nelson61]

It is for US service. Sometime this year or early next year, they will be filing the technical specifications and which orbital slot at FCC.

 

[Paul289]

Dish has filed to move Echostar 15 (launched July 2010) from the nominal 61.5W slot to 119W.
Echostar 15 is a Conus satellite.

"At the nominal 119º W.L. orbital location, EchoStar currently uses one satellite in the DBS band – the EchoStar 14 satellite – and one in the Fixed Satellite Service spectrum – Anik F3. Once moved from 61.65º W.L. to 118.8º W.L., EchoStar15 will begin active operations as EchoStar migrates services from the older EchoStar 14 satellite."

FCC file location:

Notify going to License

E15 will be moving from 61.1wl to 118.8 wl next to E14 at 119.0 wl to add channel capacity and to free up some tps for sbs on E14 this year. E15 has your standerd 32 ku corus tps and E14 has 103 ku tps that can be sbs. Dish will move its corus networks to E15 and make most if not all of its 103 tps into sbs on E14. Dish will also be able to add new corus networks and bring back some corus networks it had to remove do to lack of capacity after the move from 129w. Get ready for some reciever updating when that happens.

 

[Paul289]

IS it for DISH or Echostar to use for other services they have in Europe?

Dish and EchoStar are to different companies and EchoStar is the parent of Dish. EchoStar makes the satellites for many media/data providers around the world and Dish only provides sat tv for the US, US islands and Mexico.

 

[Paul289]

E15 will be moving from 61.1wl to 118.8 wl next to E14 at 119.0 wl to add channel capacity and to free up some tps for sbs on E14 this year. E15 has your standerd 32 ku corus tps and E14 has 103 ku tps that can be sbs. Dish will move its corus networks to E15 and make most if not all of its 103 tps into sbs on E14. I believe Dish also plans to have all the HD networks on sat and most of the SD networks moved to streaming except for the popular SD networks that will be on E15. Get ready for some reciever updating when that happens some time this summer.

 

[nelson61]

FCC approved the move and subsequent operation on 3/14/2025

 

[zippyfrog]

FCC approved the move and subsequent operation on 3/14/2025

Does this mean that 119W will now have twice the bandwidth having 2 satellites at that location? Or will only one of the satellites be used and the other is a backup?