Amos 1

 1996-030B

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The Israeli Aircraft Industries Amos communications satellite was launched by an Ariane 4. It will provide telephone, telex, fax, and TV relay services to the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Amos is presumably named after Amos of Tekoa (c. 750BC?), the Hebrew prophet.

The IAI-built spacecraft is a 2.4 x 2.0 x 2.3 m box with two solar array panels of 10.6m span. Launch mass is 996 kg; BOL mass 580 kg, dry mass 479 kg. Alcatel provided the comms payload. Amos was launched as the lower payload beneath a SPELDA 30 structure. The upper satellite was Palapa C-2, interestingly enough owned by an Islamic nation, Indonesia. AMOS was stationed over 4 deg W. The Mabat Company operated the satellite in conjunction with its Spacecom subsidiary, and supervised initial on orbit communications tests in July.

AMOS 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1996 May 16	0156	Launch by Ariane 44L (V86)	CSG ELA2
	0159	Stage 2 TIG
	0201	Stage 2 sep
	0201	Stage 3 TIG
	0214	Stage 3 MECO
	0216?	Palapa C-2 sep
	0218?	SPELDA sep
	0220?	Amos sep
1996 May 16			633.25 310 x 35788 x 4.0
1996 May 16?		LAM-1
1996 May 17?		LAM-2
1996 May 19			1374.81 33326 x 35829 x 0.1
1996 May 21	1130?	LAM-3
1996 May 23			1433.83 35724 x 35760 x 0.1 GEO 9.0W+0.5E
1996 May 31			1435.27 35748 x 35792 x 0.1 GEO 4.4W
1996 Jul 7		Test transmissions carried out
1996 Aug 3			1436.11 35772 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 4.0W
1999 Oct 15			1436.09 35772 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 4.0W
2006 Aug 1			1436.08 35768 x 35804 x 0.1 GEO 4.1W
2008 Sep 14			1436.02 35780 x 35790 x 0.1 GEO 3.9W
2008 Sep 29		Move out
2008 Nov 7		Move in	1436.02 35764 x 35805 x 0.3 GEO 1.5W
2009 Jul?		Bought by Intelsat
2009 Jul?		Renamed IS-24
2009 Jul 28			1436.03 35771 x 35799 x 1.0 GEO 1.3W
2009 Aug 18		Move out
2009 Nov 23		Move in at 47E
2009 Dec 9			1436.10 35770 x 35803 x 1.3 GEO 47.3E
2011 Jun 14			1436.03 35767 x 35802 x 2.7 GEO 47.3E
2011 Jun 15		Move out
2011 Aug 28		Move in at 31E	1436.16 35776 x 35799 x 2.8 GEO 31.0E
2012 Jul 3			1436.07 35772 x 35800 x 3.5 GEO 31.0E