 Therefore, Spacecom decided to build AMOS 2, which replaced AMOS-1 on orbit at 4 degrees West.AMOS-1 carries nine Ku band transponders.Weighing 970 kg at launch, Amos-1 incorporated a 400 Newton liquid apogee motor and fourteen reaction control thrusters, each delivering ten Newtons of thrust for raising the satellite's orbit from geostationary transfer orbit to its final geostationary orbit as well as for its attitude control.