Amos-17 overeview Final
Amos-17 overeview Final
Amos-17 overeview Final
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
Manufactured by Boeing
Smaller Antennas
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C band HTS: Sub-Sahara Regional Service Beams
Flexible Operation
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
Ku
Service beams
Interference Suppression
• Digitally Processed w/Highest Granularity
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
HTS on C- Band
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Spacecom proprietary and confidential, for internal use only
Service Examples
With Different Connectivity Options
C Hub beam
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
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Two way service serving two steerable Ka beams via
a C-band hub
C Hub beam
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