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Spacecom Satellite Providing Vital Communications Services to Africa AMOS-17 I srael’s AMOS-17 satellite, manufactured by Boeing, blasted into space aboard a SpaceX rocket in late October 2019.   The communications satellite is now successfully deployed and fully operational, providing advanced communications services to Africa.   AMOS-17 has provided Israel and satellite designer and operator Spacecom a triumphant return to Space, three years after a launchpad explosion destroyed another one of its satellites AMOS-6 Communications Services for Africa The demand for the communications services AMOS-17 is providing to Africa is huge.   The continent suffers from a lack of internet access infrastructure with some parts of Africa underserved or completely unconnected to any communications infrastructure.   Meanwhile demand for access is growing.   More than half of the African population is under 18 years old.   And the number o...

Successful Launch of Communications Satellite Aboard Space X Rocket Source:  SpaceCom's AMOS-17 AMOS 17 Israel's Space Communications, a satellite operator, has announced that its communications satellite AMOS-17 was launched into space from a SpaceX rocket and is now travelling to its targeted orbital position.  The satellite was manufactured by Boeing and launched from Cape Canaveral, FL.  The satellite is valued at $250 million. Communications Services for Africa AMOS 17 will provide communications for Africa.  During the next three months, it will go through a series of tests and then go into commercial operation in late 2019.  The launch was very important for Israel to help it rebound from some major space setbacks, including the loss of a satellite in 2016 when a SpaceX rocket exploded.  AMOS-17 joins three other Space Communications satellites now in orbit.  For a free Kindle borrow of my latest book "Big Space News 2019", go to...