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Launch of Amos 3 to raise Israel's status in satellite communications industry
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: satellite communications 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 23, 2008.

On Thursday morning, the Amos 3 communications satellite will be launched into orbit, further bolstering Israel's status as a satellite communication superpower.

The preparations for the launch of Amos 3 have taken three years and $170 million.


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ike its predecessor, the Amos 2, and many other satellites starting with the Sputnik in 1957, it will be fired into outer space from Kazakhstan.

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