Largest commercial communications satellite
ever built will more than double the capacity of the Hughes
JUPITER fleet
GERMANTOWN, Md., July 29,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, an
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) company, today announced its JUPITER™ 3
ultra high-density satellite has successfully launched on a SpaceX
Falcon Heavy rocket from historic Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad
39A in Florida. Also known as
EchoStar XXIV, JUPITER 3 was built
by Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto,
CA, and is engineered to deliver gigabytes of connectivity
to customers across North and South
America.
On July 29 at 2:32 a.m. EDT, three hours and twenty-eight
minutes after lift-off, JUPITER 3
successfully deployed from the launch vehicle. The satellite began
sending and receiving its first signals, and engineers deployed the
JUPITER 3 solar arrays, which
unfolded in space to their full ten-story span.
"JUPITER 3 is the highest
capacity, highest performing satellite we've ever launched. As the
leading provider and inventor of satellite internet, we're proud to
herald the start of a new era of connectivity and serve more
customers where cable and fiber cannot," said Hamid Akhavan, CEO, EchoStar. "This
purpose-built satellite is engineered uniquely to meet our
customers' needs and target capacity where it's needed most, such
as the most rural regions of the Americas, so they can stay
connected to the applications and services they depend on every
day."
Over the next several weeks, JUPITER 3 will travel into a geosynchronous
orbit 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above the Earth to its
destination at the 95 degrees west orbital slot. It will then
undergo extensive bus and payload testing before entering service
and augmenting the Hughes JUPITER
fleet with more than 500 Gbps of additional capacity.
"Whether helping a student in Mexico expand her horizons with access to
technology, connecting a farmer in Idaho with the tools to monitor his crops, or
connecting a senior in Montana to
her doctor via a telehealth appointment, JUPITER 3 will connect our customers to what
matters most," added Akhavan.
With JUPITER 3, Hughes will
enhance its HughesNet® offerings for customers in the
U.S. and Latin America with more
broadband capacity overall and higher speed plans in many
markets—some with download speeds up to 100 Mbps. The company will
also offer higher speed HughesNet Fusion® plans, the
innovative low-latency home internet that leverages multipath
technology to blend satellite and wireless technologies seamlessly
into a low-latency satellite internet experience.
With dense, high-throughput capacity across the Americas,
JUPITER 3 will also support
applications such as in-flight Wi-Fi, enterprise networking and
cellular backhaul for mobile network operators (MNOs).
For more information and to follow along on the journey to
JUPITER 3, visit the Hughes
website.
About Hughes
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar
(Nasdaq: SATS) company, provides broadband equipment and services;
managed services featuring smart, software-defined networking; and
end-to-end network operation for millions of consumers, businesses,
governments and communities worldwide. The Hughes flagship internet
service, HughesNet®, connects millions of people across
the Americas, and the Hughes JUPITER™ System powers internet access
for tens of millions more worldwide. Hughes supplies more than half
the global satellite terminal market to leading satellite
operators, in-flight service providers, mobile network operators
and military customers. A managed network services provider, Hughes
supports approximately half a million enterprise sites with its
HughesON™ portfolio of wired and wireless solutions. To learn more,
visit www.hughes.com or follow HughesConnects on Twitter
and LinkedIn.
©2023 Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. Hughes
and HughesNet are registered trademarks and JUPITER is a trademark of Hughes Network
Systems, LLC.
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