EchoStar Seeks License Extension for EchoStar 9
EchoStar hopes to get four additional years of life out of EchoStar 9. In an FCC International Bureau filing Monday, it requested a license term extension to Aug. 31, 2022, pointing to the satellite's estimated fuel consumption and end of…
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life. The current license term for EchoStar 9 -- which launched in August 2003 and operates at 121 degrees west -- expires Aug. 18.