http:// spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-amos-6/amos-6-satellite/

great overview of the AMOS-6 Satellite that exploded on the falcon-9 in 2016.

1)Owned by Israeli telecommunications provider Spacecom

2) built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

2) Thales Alenia provided the electric propulsion system

3) Chemical Propulsion built by Airbus Defence and Space

4) Canadian company MDA was contracted to build the communications payload.

5) 18 Gigabytes per sec leased for 5 years to Facebook and telecom provider Eutelsat

The satellite hosts 39 Ku Segments and 24 Ka-Band beams plus two S-Band transponders to create three Ku-Band beams covering the Middle East, Central Eastern Europe and a Pan-European band, and 36 Ka-Band spot beams focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.

satellite had an expected life of 15 years

>>1368514

should have said 18 Gigabits per second not 18 Gigabytes per second. Sorry.

>>1368533

To expand,

SpaceX gives free ride to replacement for Facebook's fried satellite

Israel's Spacecom still loves Elon enough to also pay for future launch

https:// www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/spacex_gives_free_ride_to_spacecom/

Spacecom has told the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange it expects to use SpaceX for a launch in 2019, and possibly a further launch in 2020.

If all goes well, a reused Falcon 9 will hoist AMOS-6's replacement, AMOS-8, in 2020.

and also,

AMOS-17 is being built by Boeing to replace another Spacecom bird, AMOS-5, which failed in 2015 after an electrical fault.

>>1368625

>>1368613 Replacement launch for AMOS-6 and others set for 2020