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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Nusantara Lima - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - September 11, 2025

Launch Date: September 11, 2025 (EDT) Launch Time: 9:56 p.m. EDT, (September 12, 0156 UTC, 03:56 CEST) Launch Window: Open until 9:56 p.m. EDT Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Statio...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Indonesia's Nusantara Lima on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the Nusantara Lima (N5) satellite from private Indonesian satellite company, Satelit Nusantara Lima (SNL), a subsidiary of Pasifik Satelit...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Nusantara Lima - Attempt 3

Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian high-throughput telecommunications satellite to operate in Geostationary orbit as a replacement for Nusantara-2, which failed to reach orbit on a CZ-3B in 2020. It will...

Nusantara Lima Mission

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Nusantara Lima

Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 45%
B1078 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 12, 2025, 6:14 a.m.

Satellite in operation.


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 12, 2025, 2:27 a.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 12, 2025, 1:56 a.m.

Liftoff.


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 12, 2025, 1:03 a.m.

Now targeting Sep 12 at 01:56 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 12, 2025, 12:54 a.m.

Now targeting Sep 12 at 01:45 UTC


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1078

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: March 2, 2023
Last Flight: March 22, 2026
Flights: 27
Landings Attempted: 27
Landings Successful: 27
Previous B1078 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1078 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 23rd flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 661 Failures: 15 Pending: 121

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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