Satellites and Challenges

Kompas/Didit Putra Erlangga Rahardjo

An Ariana V rocket carrying the Telkom S3 satellite is moved from the final assembly building at the Guiana Space Center, Monday (13/2).

An experience from 32 years ago has recurred: the disruption ofan Indonesian communication satellite operated by state-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom (formerly Perumtel).

That disruption, which began on the morning of Friday, August 31, 1985, affected the Palapa B1 satellite. Now, the Telkom 1 satellite has been disrupted since late afternoon on Friday, August 25, 2017.