Main Engine Cut Off

Spacecom notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that it would not be making an Amos-8 down payment that was due Sept. 25, rendering the manufacturing agreement with SSL null.

Spacecom also disclosed that it had notified SpaceX that it was terminating its contract for a 2020 launch of Amos-8 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

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The Israeli government told Spacecom in late April that it intended to order a satellite from IAI and place it in the same geosynchronous orbit as most of Spacecom’s fleet. Then, on Sept. 3, Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology announced that Amos-8 will be built in Israel with government financial support.