• Satellite Delivery to the Payload Processing Facility, Sea Launch Home Port
• Payload Rollout from the Payload Processing Facility to the Sea Launch Commander
• Rocket Transfer from the Ship to the Odyssey Launch Platform
• Rocket Rollout and Erection on launch pad for the final tests
• Departure of the Odyssey Launch Platform
• Departure of the Sea Launch Commander
• Arrival at Equatorial Launch Site, countdown begins
• Launch of EchoStar X satellite

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The 4333 kg (9,553 lb) EchoStar X spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, is a high-power KU Band A2100-AX satellite with a service life of 15 years on orbit. Optimized for direct broadcast applications, EchoStar X is a new-generation satellite that will enable DISH Network to deliver expanded services for distribution of direct-to-home broadcast services to its U.S. customers.

EchoStar Communications Corporation, based in Englewood, Colorado, serves more than 11.7 million satellite TV customers through its DISH Network, the fastest growing U.S. provider of advanced digital television services in the past five years. DISH Network offers hundreds of video and audio channels, Interactive TV, HDTV, sports and international programming, together with professional installation and 24-hour customer service.

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, based in Newtown, Pennsylvania, markets, designs and builds geostationary and non-geostationary telecommunications and remote sensing satellites for customers worldwide. It is an operating unit of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, a core business area of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

From its equatorial launch site at 154 degrees West Longitude, a Zenit-3SL launch vehicle lifted the EchoStar X spacecraft to a high perigee geosynchronous transfer orbit for its ultimate orbital location at 110 degrees West Longitude.

Lifting off from the Odyssey Launch Platform, the Zenit-3SL rocket began its ascent phase of flight. The first stage of the vehicle separated two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, and then the protective payload fairing was jettisoned a minute later. Following a six-minute burn, the second stage separated from the Block DM upper stage. The Block DM then executed a five-minute burn and then shutdown for a 33-minute coast period. The Block DM ignited a second time for a five-and-a-half minute burn. After another coast lasting nearly 10 minutes, the Block DM separated from the spacecraft, above the East Coast of Africa.