02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
...static fire test on September 1, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon 9 was scheduled to launch on September 3 with the Amos-6 communications satellite payload for the Israeli satellite operator Spacecom. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's twitter...
18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
... ESA electric propulsion specialist Jose Gonzalez Del Amo. “By electrically charging propellant and accelerating it using...in place of bulky propellant tanks,” added Gonzalez Del Amo. Gonzalez Del Amo explains that the main trade-off with using an all...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... also partnered with Paris-based Eutelsat to lease the Ka transponder on the AMOS-6 satellite to link disconnected African regions to the internet but unfortunately, AMOS-6 was destroyed on the launch pad when its launch vehicle, the SpaceX...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... objects in GEO”, supra note [12]. 17 K Jorgensen, et al, “Reflectance Spectra of Human-made Objects,” (Address to the 2004 AMOS Technical Conference, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, 8 - 12 September 2004). 18 IADC Recommendation & Re-orbit Procedure for GEO...
06 October 2015
Facebook, Eutelsat to beam Internet from space to Africa
... infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies,” he said. The Israeli company Spacecom’s Amos-6 satellite will fly in geostationary orbit, Eutelsat said in a press release. Facebook and Eutelsat have agreed...
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
...-safety best practices was announced recently at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference - AMOS. The new coalition, the Space Safety Coalition (SSC), is comprised of space operators, space industry associations and...
