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The Intelsat-38/Azerspace-2 satellite has a mass of 3,500 kg and was built by Space Systems Loral.
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 terminated contracts awarded earlier in 2019 to Space Systems Loral and SpaceX for the Amos-8 telecommunications satellite on 2019-09-25.
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.
DigitalGlobe is working with LeoLabs to convert radar data into cloud-based information about debris locations on orbit.
The PSN-6/next SSL-built GEO satellite is expected to launch on a Falcon 9 late 2018 or early next year.
Industry observers believe the primary payload for the Falcon 9 mission is the PSN-6 communications satellite, which is the next Space Systems Loral-built GEO satellite scheduled for launch on a Falcon 9.
Spaceflight Industries plans a series of rideshare missions to geostationary transfer orbit beginning with several payloads accompanying a satellite built by Space Systems Loral on a Falcon 9.
Maxar expects to decide around the end of the year what to do with its SSL GEO communications business.
Maxar told investors that SSL’s Palo Alto, California property could be worth $150,000,000 to $200,000,000.
With commercial GEO satellite orders hitting a 15-year low last year, Maxar outlined strategic alternatives for SSL that include partnering with another satellite manufacturer, selling the business, or shutting it down after completing any satellites already under contract.
SSL is pivoting toward building smaller satellites and constellations of non-geostationary satellites, including competing to build a 117-satellite low-Earth-orbit system for Canada’s Telesat.
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.
SSL won two of the six commercial GEO tenders 2018: BSAT-4b and Amos-8.
Maxar Technologies is contemplating exiting the commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellite business amid a prolonged order slump.
Airbus and Maxar’s SSL each won two of the 2018 normal commercial GEO contracts.
Telesat awarded two study contracts this summer to Airbus and to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to conduct detailed analyses of how to build the constellation and associated ground systems.
Telstar 18 Vantage was built by Space Systems Loral and weighed about 7,000 kg at liftoff.
Maxar Technologies won Deal of the Year for 2017.
NASA will buy Earth science data from DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire, with contracts for those data purchases still being negotiated.