SpaceX Nusantara Lima Rocket Launch

Launch Time: 8:00 PM EDT

🚀 Vehicle: Falcon 9 Block 5

🛰️ Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

📡 Mission Type: Communications

Mission Overview:

SpaceX will launch Nusantara Lima, a high-throughput Indonesian communications satellite, aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. The Block 5 variant is SpaceX’s most advanced and reusable version of the Falcon 9, designed for safe and rapid turnaround between missions.

About the Payload:

• Nusantara Lima is built by Boeing and based on the 702MP satellite platform.
• Ordered by Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), it is intended to provide over 160 Gbps of broadband capacity.
• The satellite will operate in geostationary orbit, complementing SATRIA-1 and replacing Nusantara-2, which was lost in 2020.

🌐 Objective:

Enhance Indonesia’s telecommunications infrastructure, bridging connectivity gaps across the archipelago and Southeast Asia.

🚢 Recovery:

Falcon 9’s first stage may attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

🔗 Learn More:

Follow mission updates at spacex.com/launches

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