GMV has been chosen by Space Systems Loral (SSL) for developing and installing the control center for the BRIsat communications satellite, owned by Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), the country’s oldest bank and one of its biggest.

BRIsat is a geostationary communications satellite based on Space Systems Loral’s LS-1300 bus, which GMV has had the chance to work with several times in recent years, supporting a host of satellites based on this platform (Amazonas 3, Hispasat 1E, NBNCO-1A, NBNCO-1B, Star One C4, Star One D1 and Thor 7).

This project taps into GMV’s wealth of experience in providing this type of control center. The technology multinational will develop and install BRIsat’s control center, including the real time telemetry and command processing system based on its hifly®, product, plus the flight dynamics system based on focusSuite, and the ground segment control and monitoring system based on magnet.

GMV will be supplying Loral with totally integrated systems that will ensure maximum automation of satellite operations from its insertion into orbit until the end of its useful life after about 15 years.

BRIsat will be blasted into orbit in 2016 atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, making BRI the world’s first bank to launch a communications satellite. It will offer C-band and Ku-band services for the regions of Indonesia, ASEAN, Northeast Asia, some Pacific areas and Western Australia.

The satellite, weighing in at 3500 Kg, will occupy an orbital position at 150.5° East, delivering highly reliable communications services to BRI’s 11,000 bank branches scattered across the whole of the Indonesian archipelago.