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AMOS -17

More Than Just


Another Satellite
Spacecom – Operator of AMOS Satellites
4°W
AMOS-3

3 Orbital Slots covering Europe, AMOS-7


Sub-Sharan Africa, ME and Asia

Established in 1994
17°W 65°E
Publicly traded at the Tel Aviv AMOS-17 AMOS-4
Stock Exchange (TASE)
AMOS-17 – Best Satellite Over Africa
State of the Art Satellite

• Digital payload with C-Band HTS, Ku and Ka


• Cross Connect between all beams and bands
• Stationed @ 17E for optimal Elevations angles
• Highest Security, all C&C and telemetry encrypted (AES-256)

Manufactured by Boeing

• Program started 2016


• Scheduled launch Q1/2019
• Life Expectancy 19+ years

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 3


C-band HTS - An African Reality
Use Existing C-Band Equipment

• No need to upgrade or update

Smaller Antennas

• 1.8 m Data @ Remote sites

C-band High Availability

• At significantly lower cost per bit

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C band HTS: Sub-Sahara Regional Service Beams

12 High Capacity Single Beam Hub beams


• Each country served by a single beam
• 3.7-4.2GHz Service Beams

Flexible Operation

• Operate locally or via international hub


simultaneously
• Per Beam hub selection
Total 10-15Gbps, like
On-Demand Resource Allocation Service beams 7 X 36MHz per beam

• Flexible allocation between beams


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Ku Band: 2 Sub-Sahara Beams
Wide coverage over West
Africa

Uplink from Europe & ME into


both African Beams

Steerable High performance


over SADC Ku-1

Flexible allocation of TXs

Total 18 x 72MHz
TXs, FSS and BSS Ku- 2
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Ku-1 Max 14 TXs, Ku-2 Max 10 TXs
Ka-band: High Capacity Steerable & Fixed Beams
Flexible Configuration

• Beams can operate on their own


• One beam can serve as hub for another or
all beams
• Cross Connect with C and Ku Beams

Flexible allocation of Tasks

• In orbit Mission selection


• Spectrum allocation
4 Independent
Gov & Commercial Ka-Band
Steerable beams
• 1GHz per beam
• Fixed HTS beams over Europe and ME
Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 7
Ka Fixed Coverage over Europe
4 fixed Beams

Excellent for Inflight Connectivity

Hubs in Italy and Germany/France

Commercial Ka-Band frequencies

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 8


AMOS-17: Highest Security

Highest Security Encryption

• Field Proven, Robust, AES-256 encryption


• All C&C and telemetry encrypted

Secure & Independent Customer Control

• Ka-band Customers can control and steer own payload


• Actual Antenna Position can be classified from Spacecom
• Requires ground equipment to be bought by the customer

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 9


Digital Processor Unique Benefits

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 10


Maximum Flexibility for Providing Services to Africa

Optimal Solution Architecture for any


Service and Application

Cross Connect between all BEAMS


and all BANDS

Ku
Service beams

Service Example: UL/Hub in China or India on C-band


Broadcast to Africa or VSAT on C-band or Ku-band
More Service Examples Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 11
Superior Quality of Service

Interference Suppression
• Digitally Processed w/Highest Granularity

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 12


Control at Signal Level:
Improve Service Availability and Flexibility

Power Measurement
Tone Generator
Gain adjustment ALC Per User & Spectrum
Eases Deployment
Monitoring
• At Signal level vs • Keep the output • Power and • Transmit CW signal
Transponder level power at a fixed spectrum control at any part of the
• More control over level per signal per signal spectrum and
quality and • Digital scanning of generate DL signals
availability of signals, duplicate
service per user spectrum to beams

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 13


AMOS-17 – The Satellite Over Africa

HTS on C- Band

Maximum Flexibility for Providing Services to Africa with Optimal Architecture

Unprecedented Quality of Service

Attractive Pricing Models

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Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only
Service Examples
With Different Connectivity Options

Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only 16


Serve Multiple C beams from one C-band hub in
China

C Hub beam

C Service beams Gradual C- Band Hub


Deployment - take advantage
of HTS economics without high
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initial costs
Broadcast to both Ku beams using a single UL from a
C-band hub in India

C Hub beam

Ku Service beams

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Two way Ka service using two steerable beams

Steerable Hub beam

Steerable Service beam

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Two way service serving two steerable Ka beams via
a C-band hub

C Hub beam

Steerable Service beams

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