There will be other satellites, but that is very dependent on the success of SATRIA-1Orlando, United States (ANTARA) - The success of SATRIA-1 becomes an important factor in determining the continuation of other satellites owned by the Indonesian government, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics' official, Wayan Toni Supriyanto, stated.
"There will be other satellites, but that is very dependent on the success of SATRIA-1," he noted during a press conference on the preparation to launch SATRIA-1 here on Friday local time.
The Republic of Indonesia Satellite-1, or SATRIA-1, is the first multifunction satellite owned by the Indonesian government.
Hence, the satellite's launch, scheduled to take place at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, the US, on Sunday at 6:00 p.m. local time, is expected to be successful and not encounter challenges.
If the launch is successful, then at the end of 2023, SATRIA-1's testing can commence, and in the event of no problems being encountered, it can start operating in 2024.
The monitoring of SATRIA's internet service quality will be conducted at the Control Directorate at the ministry.
SATRIA-1 has been built by the government since 2019 to provide equal internet access in public facilities, specifically in the disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions.
According to the ministry's latest study in 2023, the 150-Gbps capacity SATRIA-1 will provide expanded broadband coverage to 50 thousand public facility points in 3T regions connected to the internet.
The internet speed in each of these points reached 4 Mbps, which is four folds higher than the previous projected speed of only 1 Mbps for every point in 2018.
In addition to SATRIA-1, the ministry will launch Hot Backup Satellite (HBS) in the third quarter of 2023.
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