{"id":10396,"date":"2023-06-18T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T09:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/indonesian-communications-satellite-launched-by-spacex-rocket\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T17:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T09:52:06","slug":"indonesian-communications-satellite-launched-by-spacex-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/indonesian-communications-satellite-launched-by-spacex-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian communications satellite launched by SpaceX rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with PSN\u2019s SATRIA communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on&nbsp;Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>[tabby title=\u201dSFN Live\u201d]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7lJMooKfmM\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[tabbyending]<\/p>\n<p>A Father\u2019s Day launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral hauled into orbit a European-built communications satellite, the centerpiece of a nearly $550 million project to provide internet service to rural Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.6-metric ton (10,100-pound) spacecraft, known as SATRIA, lifted off atop SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:21 p.m. EDT (2221 UTC) Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 ignited its nine kerosene-fueled Merlin engines in the final seconds of the countdown, then hold-down clamps opened to allow the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket to climb away from pad 40. A few moments later, the Falcon 9 steered on a trajectory due east from Cape Canaveral and thundered into a mostly sunny late afternoon sky.<\/p>\n<p>The reusable first stage of the rocket came back to Earth for landing on a drone ship 420 miles (680 kilometers) downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. The Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage fired its engine two times to place the SATRIA spacecraft into an elliptical \u201csuper synchronous\u201d transfer orbit ranging tens of thousands of miles above Earth. The Falcon 9 reached a top speed of 21,725 mph (34,963 kilometers per hour) with the final impulse from the upper stage engine, according to a telemetry display on SpaceX\u2019s live webcast of the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62502\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62502\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618f9satrialiftoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618f9satrialiftoff.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618f9satrialiftoff-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618f9satrialiftoff-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618f9satrialiftoff-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Sunday with Indonesia\u2019s SATRIA communications satellite. Credit: Stephen Clark \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The upper stage deployed the SATRIA spacecraft nearly 37 minutes after liftoff.&nbsp;Ground teams were on standby to receive the first signals from the SATRIA spacecraft, which will unfurl solar panels to recharge its batteries, then use electric thrusters to maneuver into a circular geostationary orbit over the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The ion engines will take several months to place the SATRIA satellite into its orbital position at 146 degrees east longitude, where its velocity will match the speed of Earth\u2019s rotation, giving the spacecraft a fixed geographic coverage zone over the Asia-Pacific region. The satellite will open three antenna reflectors and activate its communications payload, consisting of 116 Ka-band spot beams.<\/p>\n<p>The SATRIA satellite will provide about 150 gigabits per second of communications throughout when it begins service around November.<\/p>\n<p>SATRIA, which stands for Satellite of Republic of Indonesia, will be operated by Satelit Nusantara Tiga, a subsidiary of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, or PSN.<\/p>\n<p>During its 15-year service life, SATRIA will provide internet service to rural hospitals, schools, and government buildings, focusing on areas where terrestrial fiber connections are unavailable. Indonesia, the world\u2019s fourth more populous country, has roughly 6,000 inhabited islands, exacerbating the challenge of building out a national infrastructure for internet connectivity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62492\" style=\"width: 1100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62492\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriaart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriaart.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriaart-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriaart-678x480.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriaart-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist\u2019s illustration of the SATRIA satellite with its solar panels and Ka-band antennas deployed in orbit. Credit: Thales Alenia Space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere are areas that are still blank spots,\u201d said Danny Januar Ismawan, infrastructure director of Indonesia\u2019s Telecommunications and Information Accessibility Agency. \u201cThis satellite technology is the telecommunication network of last resort. Why use a satellite? Because it\u2019s impossible with fiber optic or microwave terrestrial technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SATRIA was built by Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, then transported to Cape Canaveral last month on a ship to begin final launch preparations. The satellite is based on Thales\u2019s Spacebus Neo spacecraft design, the company\u2019s newest satellite bus which debuted in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The new satellite will not provide internet service directly to individual users. Instead, the project, backed by the Indonesian government, will support education and health centers, and thousands of public WiFi access points where citizens can connect to the internet with computers and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, in the village office, we place the WiFi there,\u201d said Usman Kansong, Indonesia\u2019s director general of information and public communication. \u201cI think the benefits are indirectly to the community because SATRIA 1 is part of a digital transformation that will also have an impact on people\u2019s welfare in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SATRIA project cost nearly $550 million, or about 8 trillion Indonesia rupiah, including expenses to build satellite, launch services, insurance, and ground infrastructure. Thales\u2019s contract also covered the construction of two satellite control centers and telemetry stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a capacity of 150 Gbps, more&nbsp;than three times the national capacities&nbsp;that are currently still in use, we believe that SATRIA can be the solution&nbsp;to the digital gap that still exists in Indonesia,\u201d said&nbsp;Adi Rahman Adiwoso, president director of PSN.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62501\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62501\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriathales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriathales.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriathales-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriathales-678x438.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriathales-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SATRIA communications satellite at the Thales Alenia Space factory in Cannes, France. Credit: Thales Alenia Space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SATRIA is the second in a series of PSN satellites to bring improved communications to Indonesia. The Nusantara Satu, or Nusantara 1, satellite launched in 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and Nusantara Lima, or Nusantara 5, is scheduled for liftoff later this year on a Falcon 9 to augment broadband capacity provided by SATRIA, also called Nusantara 3.<\/p>\n<p>PSN\u2019s Nusantara broadband satellites in geostationary compete with connectivity to Indonesian users provided by SpaceX\u2019s Starlink internet network in low Earth orbit, through an arrangement between SpaceX and the Indonesian telecom operator PT Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s first communications satellite, Palapa A1, launched in 1976 on a mission to provide television broadcast services.<\/p>\n<p>Working out of SpaceX\u2019s launch and landing control center just south of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, engineers supervised the countdown leading up to liftoff of the SATRIA mission Sunday. The Falcon 9 rocket was filled with a million pounds of kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants in the final 35 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>After teams verified technical and weather parameters were all \u201cgreen\u201d for launch, the nine Merlin 1D main engines on the first stage booster flashed to life with the help of an ignition fluid called triethylaluminum\/triethylborane, or TEA-TEB. Once the engines ramped up to full throttle, hydraulic clamps opened to release the Falcon 9 for its climb into space.<\/p>\n<p>The nine main engines produced 1.7 million pounds of thrust for more than two-and-a-half minutes, propelling the Falcon 9 and SATRIA into the upper atmosphere. Then the booster stage shut down and separated from the Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage to begin a controlled descent toward SpaceX\u2019s drone ship \u201cA Shortfall of Gravitas\u201d parked in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62494\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62494\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriapatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriapatch.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriapatch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriapatch-678x679.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriapatch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230618satriapatch-768x769.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s patch for the SATRIA mission. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The booster, designated B1067, extended titanium hypersonic grid fins and used cold gas nitrogen thrusters to control its orientation, then reignited three of its nine main engines for a nearly 30-second braking maneuver during re-entry. A final landing burn with just the center engine slowed the rocket for touchdown on the drone ship about eight-and-a-half minutes into the mission.<\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX recovery ship was also in position in the Atlantic to recover the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s payload fairing after the nose cone\u2019s two clamshell halves parachuted into the sea. The payload fairing jettisoned from the rocket about three-and-a-half minutes into the flight, shortly after ignition of the Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage engine.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket fired its upper stage engine two times to inject the SATRIA spacecraft into an elliptical super synchronous transfer orbit. Separation of SATRIA from the Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage was confirmed at T+plus 36 minutes, 47 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROCKET:<\/strong>&nbsp;Falcon 9 (B1067.12)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAYLOAD: <\/strong>SATRIA&nbsp;communications satellite<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAUNCH SITE:&nbsp;<\/strong>SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAUNCH DATE: <\/strong>June 18, 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAUNCH WINDOW: <\/strong>6:04-9:02 p.m. EDT (2204-0102 UTC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEATHER FORECAST:&nbsp;<\/strong>60-75%&nbsp;probability of acceptable weather; Main concerns are cumulus clouds, anvil clouds, electrical fields<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOSTER RECOVERY:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cA Shortfall of Gravitas\u201d drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAUNCH AZIMUTH:&nbsp;<\/strong>East<\/p>\n<p><strong>TARGET ORBIT:&nbsp;<\/strong>Super synchronous transfer orbit<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAUNCH TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T+00:00: Liftoff<\/li>\n<li>T+01:14: Maximum aerodynamic pressure (Max-Q)<\/li>\n<li>T+02:33: First stage main engine cutoff (MECO)<\/li>\n<li>T+02:37: Stage separation<\/li>\n<li>T+02:44: Second stage engine ignition<\/li>\n<li>T+03:30: Fairing jettison<\/li>\n<li>T+06:33: First stage entry burn ignition (three engines)<\/li>\n<li>T+06:54: First stage entry burn ends<\/li>\n<li>T+08:10: Second stage engine cutoff (SECO 1)<\/li>\n<li>T+08:28: First stage landing burn ignition (one engine)<\/li>\n<li>T+08:39: First stage landing<\/li>\n<li>T+27:40: Second stage engine restart<\/li>\n<li>T+28:36: Second stage engine cutoff (SECO 2)<\/li>\n<li>T+36:47: SATRIA separation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MISSION STATS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>233rd launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010<\/li>\n<li>244th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006<\/li>\n<li>12th launch of Falcon 9 booster B1067<\/li>\n<li>173rd flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster<\/li>\n<li>196th SpaceX launch from Florida\u2019s Space Coast<\/li>\n<li>129th Falcon 9 launch from pad 40<\/li>\n<li>184th launch overall from pad 40<\/li>\n<li>2nd SpaceX launch for PSN<\/li>\n<li>39th Falcon 9 launch of 2023<\/li>\n<li>42nd launch by SpaceX in 2023<\/li>\n<li>30th orbital launch attempt based out of Cape Canaveral in 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with PSN\u2019s SATRIA communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. 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[tabby title=\u201dSFN Live\u201d] [tabbyending] A Father\u2019s Day launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}