Echostar 9

[rtt2]

I was thinking about what Echostar would do if they bought Cablevision's satellite. The last I heard Echostar 9 was going to be launched by Boeing's Sea Launch system. (Here is the link for the press release announcing it on March 20). http://www.boeing.com/news/releases...nr_030320s.html
However when I went to the Sea Launch website today, it looks like the Echostar 9 satellite launch has been taken off the website and replaced with the Thuraya-2 launch. http://www.sea-launch.com/

Under the section that said current launch Echostar 9 used to be listed and it looks like it has been changed. There is no press release announcing why there was a change or if the launch simply was pushed back.
http://www.sea-launch.com/special/s...rent_launch.htm

Does anyone have any info on the current status of the Echostar 9 launch? Has the delivery platform changed? Is that why Charlie was in Mexico during the last Charlie Chat?

[Sherlock]

Charlie was in Mexico for the retailer summit.

[Doug E]

I believe that NASA is referring to this satellite as Telstar 13, which will have Ka, Ku, and C band trans

[Mike123abc]

Nasa has it now listed for July launch. Probably had something go wrong in testing and had to get a fix. They work hard to be sure the sat works perfectly since there is no way to fix it once it is up. Look at E8 it was delayed about 2 times to repair problems that showed up in test.

[rtt2]

Who is going to launch it and where is it going to be launched from?