{"id":81632,"date":"2013-01-30T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-to-launch-amos-6-on-falcon-9-rocket-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2013-01-30T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:07:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-amos-6-on-falcon-9-rocket-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-to-launch-amos-6-on-falcon-9-rocket-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Amos-6 on Falcon 9 Rocket in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-30-13] <b>SpaceX<\/b> and <b>Spacecom<\/b> have reached an agreement to launch Spacecom\u2019s Amos-6 satellite on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Falcon 9 will insert the communications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Amos-6 mission is targeting a 2015 launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla.<br \/>\nThe Amos-6 agreement, announced Jan. 29, continues a string of new SpaceX contracts after the company closed out 2012 with 14 new launch deals.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis last year has been one of great success and tremendous growth,\u201d SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in a statement. \u201cSpacecom was one of our earliest supporters\u2014SpaceX is proud to be their partner and we look forward to launching their AMOS-6 satellite.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Amos-6 satellite, to be built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), aims to provide communication services including direct satellite home Internet for Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Amos-6 will replace Amos-2, which is expected to end its service in 2016.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAmos-6 will be larger and stronger than Amos-2 and Amos-3 combined, and signals a new age for Spacecom,\u201d David Pollack, President and CEO of Spacecom, said in a statement. \u201cAs we establish our position as a global satellite operator providing more services and capacity, AMOS-6 will be a key element of our business strategy and future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-30-13] SpaceX and Spacecom have reached an agreement to launch Spacecom\u2019s Amos-6 satellite on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Falcon 9 will insert the communications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Amos-6 mission is targeting a 2015 launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Amos-6 agreement, announced Jan. 29, continues a string of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}