Amos 6 Satellite

Amos 6 was intended to be launched on flight 29 of a spacex falcon 9 to geosynchronous transfer orbit on 3 september 2016.

Amos 6 satellite. Amos 17 is a state of the art multi band high throughput satellite hts utilizing boeing s advanced digital processor platform that will provide reliable and. Iai s last communications satellite was amos 6 which was destroyed in a falcon 9 explosion during a 2016 fueling mishap. Amos 8 is a planned communications satellite by the israeli spacecom to replace the failed amos 6 satellite and its temporary replacement amos 7. 15 years 2028.

On 1 september 2016 during the run up to a static fire test there was an anomaly on the. Ku 1 ku 2 and ka. President reuven rivlin hailed the successful launch saying it was a morning. In 2018 iai was ordered to pay spacecom 10 million for late delivery.

Amos 6 was expected to be launched by mid 2016 to replace amos 2. Israeli satellite amos 17 was successfully blasted into space overnight wednesday from cape canaveral in florida. Amos 17 c band uniquely combines the benefits of hts high throughput satellite with c band superior service availability making it the best match for any sub sahara project. Launched in 2013 amos 4 established a new orbital position at 65 e providing a full range of satellite services for asia and africa including.

The primary goal of the mission was to put the 250 million amos 17 satellite into the planned elliptical transfer orbit and the falcon 9 did just that. Contact with the satellite was lost on 21 november 2015. Amos 4 at a glance. Amos 6 was to replace the aging amos 2 satellite at 4 west longitude spacecom s core orbital slot.

Amos 6 was part of a partnership between the social media giant and french satellite operator eutelsat worth 95 million which was supposed to pay for the lease of ka band spot beam broadband capacity with 18 gigabits per second of throughput according to space news. Amos 2 is scheduled to be retired in 2017. The 5 3 ton satellite was built by israel aerospace industries. Amos 6 was a 5 5 tonne israeli earth communications satellite one of the spacecom amos series that was built by israel aerospace industries iai a defense and aerospace company.

The satellite was located at 17 east longitude.