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On 2018-09-03, Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology designated Amos-8 to be built in Israel with government support.
SSL lost a contract with Israeli satellite operator Spacecom to build the Amos-8 satellite, leaving SSL with one new satellite order 2018, BSAT-4B for Japanese operator BSAT.
The canceled $112,000,000 contract with Space Systems Loral called for SSL to build Amos-8 on a schedule intended to place the satellite in orbit in 27 months.
SSL’s loss of the Amos-8 contract is a setback to the Palo Alto, California-based company’s geostationary satellite manufacturing business that parent company Maxar Technologies is considering selling, partnering off, or closing.
On 2019-09-03 Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology declared that Amos-8 will be built in Israel with government financial support.
Spacecom terminated contracts awarded earlier in 2019 to Space Systems Loral and SpaceX for the Amos-8 telecommunications satellite on 2019-09-25.
The Israeli government told Spacecom in late April 2019 that it intended to order a satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries and place it in the same geosynchronous orbit as most of Spacecom’s fleet.
In December 2016 Spacecom leased an orbiting satellite from AsiaSat to serve as a temporary replacement for Amos-6.
Spacecom ordered Amos-8 from Space Systems Loral as a replacement for the IAI-built Amos-6 satellite destroyed during a SpaceX Falcon 9 fueling mishap in September 2016.
Spacecom is entitled to receive a return of funds paid to SpaceX for the Amos-8 launch, minus an agreed-upon amount that will remain with SpaceX.
Spacecom’s March 2019 decision to buy Amos-8 from a U.S. company instead of Israel Aerospace Industries sparked concern that Israel might lose its ability to produce telecommunications satellites domestically.
SSL won two of the six commercial GEO tenders 2018: BSAT-4b and Amos-8.
Israel’s Ministry of Science approved government financial support for Amos-8 and directed that Amos-8 be developed and built in Israel on 2018-09-03.
Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced in March that it had been chosen to build the BSAT-4b satellite for Japan-based BSAT and the Amos-8 satellite for Israel-based Spacecom.
One of SSL’s 2018 orders was not fully finalized after Spacecom delayed its downpayment on the $112,000,000 Amos-8 satellite following news that the Israeli government may procure a satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries to co-locate with Spacecom’s fleet at 4 degrees West.
SSL won the BSAT-4b and Amos-8 GEO satellite contracts for Japanese operator BSAT and Israeli operator Spacecom, respectively.
Airbus’ four Pleiades Neo satellites, scheduled for launch in 2020 on two Vega C rockets, will feature Tesat-Spacecom optical links to connect to Europe’s SpaceDataHighway.
BridgeSat is working with Tesat-Spacecom and Thales Alenia Space to create optical terminals that will work with the BridgeSat network.
Tesat-Spacecom of Backnang, Germany is nearly finished developing two commercial laser terminals: a cubesat terminal that can beam 10 gigabits per second between spacecraft at distances up to 6,0 m and a terminal for 10 Gbps space-to-ground communications.
Amos-17 is a replacement for Amos-5, a Russian-built satellite that failed in 2015 after four years of operation toward an expected 15-year service life.