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Feb 08, 2010, post by Satellite PR
Immediate Linear Capacity over Africa with the AMOS Satellites: Located at 17°E Orbital Slot, the AMOS Satellites are ready to Provide C-Band and Ku-Band Capacity for New Customers
Tel Aviv – 7 February 2010: Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), the AMOS satellite fleet operator, today announced that the AMOS-5i satellite has secured additional clients since announcing operational status on January 28th. Located at the °17E orbital position, the satellite has ample C-band and Ku-band capacity to serve the burgeoning African market for customers seeking quick and reliable service due to malfunctions on other satellites.
The AMOS-5i’s 20 36MHz and 4 72MHz C-band transponders plus 9 54MHz Ku-band transponders make it a platform with abundant capacity on its pan-African C-band beam connecting Europe and the Middle East and two Ku-band regional beams.
“The AMOS-5i has become a magnet for businesses seeking an immediate and reliable solution for their regional capacity needs. We have already provided additional capacity for new clientele to meet their pressing needs and are proud to have been prepared to do so,” stated Eyal Copitt, SVP Africa Sales, Spacecom. “AMOS will continue to provide these services to the industry for telecoms, cellular operators, broadcasters, governments and others.”
ABOUT SPACECOM
Space-Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) is the operator of the AMOS satellites, which provide high-quality broadcast and communication services to Europe, the Middle East, and the Atlantic bridge to the United States. The AMOS satellite constellation, consisting of AMOS-2 and AMOS-3, co-located at the prime orbital position of 4°W, serves Direct-To-Home and other Television platforms in Europe and the Middle East, as well as provides a secure and stable transmission to government agencies. The extensive signal strength and prime location makes the AMOS platform particularly suitable for DBS and DTH operators, as well as a wide range of broadcasters, ISPs, telecommunications operators, and network integrators with Internet, voice, data and digital TV services.
The AMOS-5i satellite, the latest addition to the AMOS fleet, started service January 2010. With a position at 17°E, a new orbital position, Spacecom’s coverage is expanding to Africa. AMOS-5i provides powerful C-band and Ku-band coverage over Africa and is serving as an interim satellite until the AMOS-5 satellite’s scheduled launch in mid-2011. Once operational, the AMOS-5 satellite will replace the AMOS-5i in its orbital position, expanding both coverage areas and capacity, to deliver high-power C-band and Ku-band capacity to the entire African continent. AMOS-5 and AMOS-5i complement Spacecom’s existing satellite fleet consisting of AMOS-2 and AMOS-3, and together with AMOS-4, slated for launch in 2012 to serve Asia, establish Spacecom as a true global satellite operator. Spacecom is traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (SCC). Its major
shareholders are Eurocom, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), General Satellite Services Co. (GSSC) and Mer Services Group.
For more information please see http://www.amos-spacecom.com
Feb 02, 2010, post by awatrobski
Israeli satellite fleet operator Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom), beginning an expansion that will extend its reach into Africa and Asia, has begun service from the Amos-5i satellite over Africa and contracted to launch a satellite — probably its Asia-targeted Amos-4 — on a Falcon 9 rocket operated by startup launch services provider Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Spacecom information.
Amos-5i, carrying 20 C-band and nine Ku-band transponders, is inaugurating Spacecom service at 17 degrees east on an interim basis, until the more-powerful Amos-5 satellite is launched there in 2011. Amos-5 is being built by ISS Reshetnev of Russia, with the electronics payload being supplied by Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy.
Amos-5i is the former Asiasat-2 satellite that Hong Kong-based AsiaSat operated since the satellite’s launch in November 1995. Spacecom contracted with AsiaSat in September 2009 for the exclusive use of the satellite at 17 degrees east, and the spacecraft was subsequently drifted from its AsiaSat position of 100.5 degrees east to Spacecom’s 17 degrees east slot.
AsiaSat had been planning to place AsiaSat-2 into a graveyard orbit in 2011.
Spacecom has already sold capacity on Amos-5 to an unidentified African consumer that has agreed to a lease of up to six years, with a three-year minimum commitment, beginning in 2011. Amos-5 will carry 18 C-band transponders, 14 with 72 megahertz of power and four with 36 megahertz, and 18 72-megahertz Ku-band transponders.
For its expansion into Asia, Spacecom has contracted with Israel Aerospace Industries to build the Amos-4 satellite for launch in 2012. Amos-4 will also carry an electronics payload delivered by Thales Alenia Space. Spacecom has not announced an orbital position for Amos-4, which will be partly reserved for Israeli government use, but informed it would be placed somewhere between 64 degrees and 75 degrees east.
“Spacecom is transitioning from being a leading regional player to an emerging global satellite operator,” Spacecom Chief Executive David Pollack informed in a Jan. 28 statement.
In a separate announcement Jan. 28, Spacecom informed it had contracted with Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX for a Falcon 9 launch “as early as December 2012.” The company did not specify whether the contract is for Amos-4 only or could be applied to a later Spacecom satellite that has yet to be ordered. Falcon 9 is expected to make its inaugural flight in 2010.
The contract, Spacecom informed, “supports company plans to launch at least four additional satellites in the coming years to multiple orbital positions.”
Jan 28, 2010, post by Artur Ślesik
Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), the AMOS satellite fleet operator, today announced that the AMOS-5i satellite has reached its °17E orbital position and has begun commercial service. With clients from Africa, Europe and the Middle East already on board, the AMOS-5i satellite enables Spacecom to start serving the growing African market with C-band and Ku-band capacity. AMOS-5i is an interim satellite that will be seamlessly succeeded in its orbital position by AMOS-5 once it commences operations, scheduled for mid-2011.
The AMOS-5i satellite’s 20 36MHz and 4 72MHz C-band transponders plus 9 54MHz Ku-band transponders, make it a powerful platform offering a pan-African C-band beam connecting Europe and the Middle East alongside two Ku-band regional beams.
The AMOS-5 satellite will further expand Spacecom’s footprint in Africa thanks to its 14 72MHz and 4 36MHz C-band transponders and 18 72MHz Ku-band transponders.
“AMOS-5 will be a prime carrier of African traffic in the years to come in both broadcast and data services,” said David Pollack, president and CEO of Spacecom. “As an interim solution, the AMOS-5i satellite catalyzes and expedites our business development efforts on the continent enabling us to already position Spacecom as an attractive source of C-band and Ku-band capacity for a variety of businesses, including telecoms, cellular operators, broadcasters, governments and others.”
Pollack continued, “Spacecom is transitioning from being a leading regional player to an emerging global satellite operator, and the expansion of the AMOS fleet’s coverage over Africa represents an important milestone for the company. Once the AMOS-4 satellite joins our fleet in 2012 in an orbital position over the Indian Ocean Region, we will be one step closer to our ambitious goal.”
The AMOS 5i satellite was formerly Asia Satellite Telecommunication’s AsiaSat-2 satellite.
