Palapa

thumb|upright=1.0|right|View of the Palapa-B2 satellite from Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle Challenger after deployment on STS-41B in 1984.

Palapa is a series of communications satellites owned by Indosat, an Indonesian telecommunications company (formerly by Perumtel and then by PT Satelit Palapa Indonesia/Satelindo). The first satellite was launched in July 1976, at which time Indonesia became the first developing country to operate its own domestic satellite system. The estimated cost for the project was US$1 billion (equivalent to $ in ).