Israel's Space Communications commissioned a new communications satellite, Amos-7 on Monday a major milestone after it lost two satellites in the past two years.
Amos-7 will be substituting the archaic Amos-2 and provide service to clients in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This was one of the tasks meant to be carried out by the Amos-6 satellite that was destroyed last September in Florida when a SpaceX launcher exploded.
Intriguingly, SpaceX also plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under progress for NASA astronauts and a heavy-lift rocket yet to be flown, according to media reports on Monday. The launch of the first privately funded tourist flight beyond the orbit of the International Space Station is tentatively targeted for late 2018, Space Exploration Technologies Chief Executive Elon Musk told reporters on a conference call.
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