Israeli satellite operator Space Communications will be launching its brand new Amos-17 satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket free of charge in 2019.
This great news was announced by SpaceCom that SpaceX will provide launch services for the Amos-17 satellite in 2019 which will be followed by a second launch in 2020 for its Amos-8 satellite. More notably, the “launch agreement” constitutes a correction to the failed Amos-6 satellite launch after the Falcon 9 launcher exploded with a Facebook Satellite carried during a test two days ahead of liftoff
After such an awful accident SpaceCom sued SpaceX for $50 million and demanded a free flight following the failed launch, so probably this is why SpaceX credited a free flight. The failed mission pressed a huge loss on the Israeli space industry, but arguably more so on Facebook and their initiative to provide high-speed internet to sub-Saharan Africa.
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