Florida launched a Falcon 9 rocket with communications satellite
The US launched a carrier rocket Falcon 9 with the Israeli communications satellite Amos-17, a stream of running lead Firm SpaceX.
The launch was given from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida in 02. 24 GMT. For the first stage of the Falcon 9's third start, she had twice been used For other commercial launches SpaceX. This time the Firm plans to keep the 1st stage, but I'll try again to "catch" the nose cone of the rocket For later use.
Amos-17 is obliged to replace the launched in 2011, the satellite Amos-5, a relationship which has been lost in 2015. Amos-17 will ensure the transmission of the signals Ka-, Ku - and C-bands and will expand Spacecom coverage within Africa, the middle East and in the European Union.
The decision not to maintain the 1st stage due to the fact that the Israeli Satellite is very heavy: it weighs about 6, 5 ton, and all the power booster needed to bring it to geostationary orbit.
Amos-17, built by Boeing, is owned by Israeli Spacecom Ltd. In September 2016 in the end, what happened in the process pre-launch test firing of the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Firm has lost the Satellite Amos-6. The results conflict SpaceX has revised its practice and Now operates a test run of the engines, often held a few days before the start of the rocket, without payload.
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