JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Communications and Information Ministry has secured seven more months to place the nationally strategic Satellite of the Republic of Indonesia (Satria) on orbital slot 146°E, located above Papua.
Minister Johnny G. Plate said the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) granted the deadline extension on April 1, which gives Indonesia until October 2023 to place a spacecraft within the slot.
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