SpaceX is lined up to launch SATRIA with a launch planned for the first semester of 2023.
Delays in SATRIA financing led to a preliminary work agreement on 2020-09-03, which followed the 2019-07-01 prime-contractor selection.
Indonesia’s government secured about $545,000,000 in financing to continue manufacturing the SATRIA broadband satellite.
The seven non-replacement commercial GEO orders 2019 include three Global Xpress satellites from Inmarsat, Viasat’s Asia-Pacific ViaSat-3 satellite, PSN’s SATRIA satellite, and Space Norway’s two Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission satellites.
Thales Alenia Space has won three of 10 commercial satellite orders in 2019: one from Indonesian operator PSN for the broadband satellite Satria and two SpainSat NG satellites for Hisdesat to be co-built with Airbus Defence and Space.
PSN won a competition to prepare and operate the SATRIA broadband satellite, which is expected to launch in 2022.
SATRIA will carry 150 gigabits per second of capacity using high-throughput Ka-band beams.
The Indonesian government is providing 20.68 trillion rupiah ($1,450,000,000) to finance the Multifunction Satellite SATRIA to cover capital expenditures and 15 years of operating expenses.
On 2019-05-03, the ministry selected PSN to lead a consortium of companies on the SATRIA project.