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Delta 4 Announces Contract to Launch Indonesian
M2A
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PT Pasifik
Satelit Nusantara’s (PSN) has selected Boeing’s Delta 4 to
launch its MultiMedia Asia (M2A) satellite in mid-2003.
The M2A satellite will be launched from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, Florida aboard a medium-class commercial
variant of the Delta 4, Delta 4M+ (5,4). The M2A
satellite is being built by Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, Ca.,
using an LS-1300 bus, and is intended to provide high-speed data
transmission services to users in Asia. The satellite originally
was intended for launch in 1999, but the project was delayed
because of the financial crisis that hit the Asia Pacific region.
Though
this is the first publicly announced commercial contract to use
the Delta 4, the launch is unlikely to be the first Delta 4
mission. Boeing is under contract to launch several U.S. Air Force
satellites using the Delta 4 starting in 2002. Boeing has said
numerous commercial Delta 4 launches are on order, but until now
has not disclosed any customers.
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