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Saving Three Satellite Orbits

Indonesia attended the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19), with great challenges, rescuing its three satellite orbits, whose regulatory or legal time will run out before launching a successor satellite.

By
ARRNOLD DJIWATAMPU
· 7 minutes read
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If this failed, registration for the replacement satellites would be in the bottom order of other countries\' satellites. Really that was a mission with a formidable task. The Communication and Information Ministry, which is in charge of registering national satellites with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), submitted a proposal to extend the regulatory deadline for the three satellite orbits, which would expire before replacement satellites can be operated, to WRC-19 which was held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a tourist town on the banks of the Red Sea.

In the first session of the 5B3 Sub-Working Group (SWG 5B3) under the 5B Working Group assigned by Committee 5, the first Indonesian proposal was related to the extension of the regulatory limit for the PALAPA C1-B satellite network in the orbit of 113 degrees East Longitude being received without official objection from other ITU member countries. The orbit slot of 113 degrees East Longitude is above Sulawesi, and was extended from 6 Aug. 2019 to 31 July 2020.

Editor:
Syahnan Rangkuti
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