The Falcon 9 first stage booster used on the PSN SATRIA launch completed its 12th launch and landing on this mission.
SpaceX launched the PSN SATRIA mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit on 2023-06-18 at 6:21 p.m. ET.
PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara previously selected the JUPITER System for the Satellite of the Republic of Indonesia (SATRIA), which is currently under construction.
Thales Alenia Space is building the SATRIA-1 satellite for a 2023 launch to augment capacity for Pasifik Satelit Nusantara.
PSN has another satellite on order called SATRIA that Thales Alenia Space is building for a launch in the first semester of 2023.
Indonesia secured $545,000,000 in funding for the SATRIA broadband satellite that is partly backed by Bpifrance.
Thales Alenia Space is building the SATRIA broadband satellite ordered by Indonesia in 2019.
The remaining $125 million, or 22.73% of SATRIA’s total investment, will be funded by the PSN Consortium’s capital.
SATRIA is a multi-function satellite with a capacity of 150 gigabits per second using Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) technology in the Ka-Band frequency.
SATRIA is part of a series of Nusantara satellites by the PSN group that began in 2019.
The SATRIA Preparatory Work Agreement (PWA) was signed on 2020-09-03 by Adi Rahman Adiwoso and Pascal Homsy.
Approximately $425,000,000 (IDR 6.3 trillion), or 77.27% of SATRIA’s total investment, will be provided as a loan facility by a syndicate of international banks including HSBC, Banco Santander, and The Korean Development Bank (KDB).
The total investment for the SATRIA project is $550,000,000 (IDR 8 trillion).
PSN is working with France-based aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space to begin the SATRIA satellite construction program in September 2020.
Thales Alenia Space was selected as prime contractor for SATRIA in July 2019.
Korea Development Bank committed $126,000,000 to the SATRIA project.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank committed $150,000,000 to the SATRIA project.
The Indonesian government forecasted a delay to launch SATRIA from March 2023 to the fourth quarter of 2023.
Thales Alenia Space started developing the SATRIA Ka-band spacecraft in 2020-09-01 after receiving partial financing under a preliminary work agreement dated 2020-09-03.
The SATRIA financing documents were completed during a virtual ceremony held 2021-02-26 in the Presidential Palace of Indonesia attended by President Joko Widodo.