NGSO Satellite Customers Mysteriously Give Funds Of IDR 2 Trillion To MDA

MDA gets a mysterious second customer to build a constellation of satellites (photo: dock. Telesat)

JAKARTA MDA, a space technology company, announced that it has obtained 36 non-geostationary satellite constellations (NGSOs).

The company in Canada kept its customers a secret, but they stated that the costs of this request reached 131 million US dollars or about (Rp 2 trillion). However, this constellation deal does not stop there.

MDA said in their release that the value of the deal could be four times greater if MDA became the main contractor of the constellation it plans to launch next year.

When Spacenews answered in more detail about the contents of the deal, MDA spokesman Amy MacLeo refused to speak. He did not want to give other details, including an Authorization contract to Continue (ATP).

This mysterious customer became the second consumer to be announced by MDA for the manufacture of their new satellite. The first customer from MDA is Telesat, a satellite communications company in Canada.

Telesat bought the latest MDA-made satellite whose configurations could be changed while in orbit to respond to requests for changes from Earth. The weight of this satellite reaches 198,750 kilograms.

The communication company that leaves cooperation with Thales Alenia Space will create a constellation of Langightspeed roadbands in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in mid-2026. This contest cost $ 2 billion (Rp30 quadrillion).