launched fromUSA

Echostar 6

Name: Echostar 6
Start: 2000-07-14T05:21:00Z
Location: Canaveral

Success

JUL 14200005:21:00 UTC

Commercial communications satellite; most powerful direct broadcast satellite ever launched.

LIFTOFF

JUL 14 2000

05:21:00 UTC

Success

launched fromLC-36BCanaveral

aboardAtlas IIASAC-161intoGSO

Payload

Echostar 6 (Bermudasat 1)

Communications