Indosat Launch a New Satellite in China
Indosat (Indonesian Satellite Corporation), the second biggest cellular operator in Indonesia will launch its new communication satellite, named Indosat Palapa-D, in Xichang, Southwest China, today August 31st, 2009. Indosat Palapa-D will replace Palapa-C which will end its operation time in 2011. Palapa-D has been designed since 2004 and is expected to orbit for 15 years.
Palapa-D is made by Thales Alenia Space France with the platform of Spacebus-4000B3. PALAPA-D has 120% capacity higher than Palapa-C. Beside that, Palapa-D can cover ASEAN countries, several Asia countries, middle east and Australia. This satellite has 4100kg in weight and at the launch time consume 7500 watt power. Indosat uses the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) service to launch the satellite.
Indosat will make use this satellite to broadcasting services, cellular backhaul services, VSAT service, DigiBouquet and Telecast Service as value added services to serve corporate customers in data communication and broadcasting. Indosat also uses this satellite for as backbone for other services such as cellular, fixed phone and fixed data. For your information, Indosat is the company which has almost all telecommunication services such: cellular, both GSM/3G and CDMA, fixed, long distance, international gateway, satellite, and data.
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