JAKARTA - As a satellite with a capacity of 160 Gbps, which is also the largest in Asia, the Nusantara Lima Satellite is claimed to be able to provide internet access services throughout Indonesia, even to the Philippines and Malaysia.
President Director of PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) Adi Rahman Adiwoso said PSN had collaborated with satellite service company We Are IT Philippines Inc at the end of 2022.
Later, PSN will help provide an internet connection in remote areas of the Philippines with a capacity of 13.5 Gbps. The provision of services to ASEAN also strengthens the reputation of companies and countries at the international level.
Adi said that the expansion of PSN services to countries in ASEAN emphasized the capabilities of Indonesian companies in the field of satellite and space technology in the global arena.
"We will continue to innovate in products and services to maximize the potential of other markets in the future as well as carry a mission to strengthen the sovereign national space industry independently," Adi said in his official statement quoted on Sunday, September 14.
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Launched on Friday, September 12 using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the satellite will play an important role in strengthening national capacity for the domestic market, equitable internet access, development of telecommunications technology aspects, strengthening space-based human resources, disaster mitigation, environmental monitoring, as well as the defense and security sectors.
The N5 satellite will take at least four to five months on its journey in space to occupy an orbital slot of 113 degrees East Longitude or known as a golden spot.
In addition, PSN also collaborated with Hughes Network System in building eight earth stations spread across several cities such as Banda Aceh, Bengkulu, Cikarang, Gresik, Banjarmasin, Tarakan, Kupang, and Makassar.
Project Director of the Nusantara Lima Satellite and PSN Technology Director Satrio Adiwicaksono added that the spread of earth stations starting from western, central and eastern Indonesia so that SNL services can reach disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas which have been difficult to access to the internet so far.
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