PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Telkom), Indonesia’s largest satellite telecommunications services, has contracted capacity on SES’ recently-launched SES-9 satellite.
“Indonesia is an ideal satellite market, due to its geographic spread and large population of heavy mobile users and television viewers, and SES-9 has been designed especially to meet this demand. We are delighted to partner with Telkom to offer SES-9 satellite capacity that has the potential to deliver satellite TV across the archipelago, as well as improve the lives of millions of Indonesians and accelerate the country’s economic growth,” stated Deepak Mathur, Senior Vice President Commercial, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East at SES.
SpaceX Launches SES-9 on Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX successfully launched the SES-9 satellite using a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Boeing was lead contractor.
In addition, SES-9 is equipped with dedicated mobility beams to provide maritime coverage vessels on high-traffic maritime routes between the Suez Canal and Strait of Malacca.
The Falcon 9 rocket attempted to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic, but missed narrowly.
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