Spacecom, the AMOS satellites operator, announced in December 2016 that it had signed a US$161 million contract with Boeing to build AMOS-17, which was to replace the failed AMOS-5 satellite.[1]
It was launched on 6 August 2019, at 23:23:00 UTC by a Falcon 9launch vehicle, from Cape Canaveral, SLC-40, Florida.[2] The mass of the payload was too large to allow the booster to be recovered for reuse, so the customer paid for an "expended" launch.
Mission
The satellite was reportedly aimed to be located at 17° East longitude[3][4][5] but, early November 2019, it was at 14° East where it has been since 19 August 2019. The satellite recovered its destination to 17° East again meanwhile.
References
12"AMOS 17". Gunter's Space Page. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
↑"Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Report. 14 March 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
