ECHOSTAR 18

NORAD 41592· COSPAR 2016-039B· Active satellite· Communications· GEO

Launch

Launched on Jun 18, 2016 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.

Ariane 5 ECA | Echostar 18 & BRIsat →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 08:05 UTC

Orbit class

GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)

Operator

United States Government

Country

United States

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Jun 18, 2016

Mass

—

Apogee

35,804 km

Perigee

35,789 km

Inclination

0.02°

Period

23.94 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for ECHOSTAR 18 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

+0.9 km

Rate

+0.01 km/day

Now

35789 × 35803 km

Apogee Perigee

Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.

Launched with

One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2016-039 (Ariane 5 ECA | Echostar 18 & BRIsat).

BRISAT · 41591

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