Launched in July 2012 into its geostationary orbital slot 22,300 miles above the equator, JUPITER™ 1 (EchoStar XVII) is a fourth-generation Ka-band satellite providing HughesNet® high-speed internet services in North America. JUPITER 1 exponentially increased the capacity of its predecessor SPACEWAY 3 to 120 Gbps and delivered 100 times more capacity than conventional Ku-band satellites. This satellite has a multi-spot beam, bent-pipe Ka-band architecture and was the world’s highest capacity broadband satellite when it launched.