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EchoStar Corporation

Active SATS Broadband & DTC Public HQ: Englewood, Colorado Founded 1980

Satellite broadband (HughesNet). SpaceX acquired EchoStar's spectrum holdings. Starlink competitive pressure driving pivots.

56.2
ARI Composite
Low-Moderate Risk
#9 of 9
Peer Rank
Broadband Telecom cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
SATS
Market cap
NASDAQ

FINANCIAL HEALTH

56.2
ARI composite · Low-Moderate Risk
Peer rank#9 of 9
Peer groupBroadband Telecom
Data coverage90%
Tracked gov contracts$16.8M across 5 awards
Full finance profile →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorBroadband & DTC
Rank within sector#9 of 9
Tracked peers9

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Apr 23, 2026 NextSpaceflight Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameEchoStar Corporation
Ticker / ExchangeSATS (NASDAQ)
OwnershipPublic
HeadquartersEnglewood, Colorado
CountryUS
Founded1980
FounderCharlie Ergen
CEOHamid Akhavan
AliasesEchoStar, Hughes, HughesNet, SATS
SubsidiariesHughes Network Systems, DISH Network
Key programsHughesNet, Jupiter satellites
Gov customersDoD
IPO statusPublic

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · EchoStar corporate homepage — operator confirmation for Hughes, Boost Mobile, and direct-to-device services (NASDAQ: SATS).

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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