SpaceX will launch the Indonesian communications satellite SATRIA-1 into geosynchronous transfer orbit on June 19 with a Falcon 9 rocket.
If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff and land on the unmanned ship A Shortfall of Gravitas off the coast of Florida.
According to the SpaceX mission description, this mission is the booster’s 12th launch, after four previous ISS Dragon missions for NASA, two of which were manned and the other two were cargo resupply missions.
It is worth mentioning that SATRIA stands for “Satellite of the Republic of Indonesia”, and the satellite will be operated by the Indonesian company PSN for the Indonesian government, worth about $550 million.
According to the Jakarta Post, the satellite “aims to promote connectivity inclusiveness in the country by providing free Internet access to 150,000 public facilities, including schools, regional government offices and medical facilities.
Officials have revealed that SATRIA-1 has a throughput of 150 billion bits per second, which is three times the capacity of the nine telecommunications satellites currently in use in Indonesia.
