The Dish Network (DISH) ordered a new GEO communications sat from Maxar the two firms announced on 18 April 2023. This satellite will be a large unit expected to weigh over 6,000 kg and based on the venerable Maxar 1300 satellite bus product line. Despite its long lineage modern 1300-series spacecraft boast up-to-date technology enabling this satellite to carry a “high-power, multi-spot beam payload”.
The satellite is to be known as ES XXV and while no launch date or launch provider were revealed it is planned to be in orbit over North America “in the next few years”.

A rendering of the future ES XXV satellite in-orbit. Courtesy: Maxar