Nusantara Satu

Nusantara Satu or Nusantara Satu 1 (formerly known as PSN VI or PSN-6) is an Indonesian communications satellite. It is a large high-throughput satellite (HTS) providing voice and data communications, and broadband Internet throughout the Malay archipelago and South East Asia.

Nusantara Satu 1

Mission type	Communications satellite
Operator	PSN
COSPAR ID	2019-009A
SATCAT no.	44048
Mission duration	15 years (planned) [1]
Spacecraft properties
Bus	SSL 1300 [2][3]
Manufacturer	SSL [2]
Launch mass	4100 kg [4]
Start of mission
Launch date	22 February 2019, 01:45 UTC
Rocket	Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-068
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, SLC-40 [1]
Contractor	SpaceX
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric [1]
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	148° East [5]
Transponders
Band	38 C band and 8 Ku band [5]
Bandwidth	15 Gbits per second [3]
Capacity	High-throughput satellite [2][5]
PSN

Nusantara Satu was built by SSL and was launched in February 2019 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket along with the satellite Beresheet (2019-009B) Moon lander by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the microsat S5 (2019-009D) by the USAFRL.

Overview

Nusantara Satu is a communications satellite developed and designed by SSL for PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), the first private company in the telecommunications and information services sector in Indonesia.[3][5][7] The project's cost is US$230 million.[5][7]

The massive satellite, features solar-electric ion thrusters,[2] but it also employs conventional chemical propellant for stationkeeping in orbit.[2]

Service

The Nusantara Satu satellite carries 26 C-band, 12 extended C-band transponders and 8 Ku-band transponders. The satellite offers a total bandwidth of 15 gigabits per second.[3] Its expected service time is a minimum of 15 years.[1] It will provide communications links to rural parts of Indonesia, allowing PSN to expand broadband internet services into these regions.[8]

References

1. Gunter Dirk Krebs. "PSN 6 (Nusantara Satu)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
2. de Selding, Peter B. (5 June 2015). "Falcon 9 Co-passenger Found for SS/L-built PSN-6 Satellite". SpaceNews. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
3. SSL names undisclosed customer announced last month. SSL, Pres Release. 19 November 2014.
4. "Spesifikasi Satelit" [Satellite Specifications] (in Indonesian). PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
5. Schuster, John (2 January 2018). "Pasifik Satelit Nusantara - PSN VI project". JLS Capital Strategies. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
6. Gunter Dirk Krebs. "Sinosat 1 (Xinnuo 1, Intelsat APR 1) → ZX 5B (ChinaSat 5B) → PSN 5". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
7. PSN gets $154m to build satellite. The Jakarta Post. 7 December 2017.
8. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/spacex-indonesian-launch-israeli-moon-mission/ 21 February 2019 - Retrieved: 9 April 2020.