Nusantara Satu (PSN 6)

Launch data:

Mission details:

• Nusantara Satu is a Maxar SS/L-1300 C/Ku-band satellite for Indonesian telecom operator PT Pasific Satellit Nusantara. It was launched on a Falcon 9 from Canaveral′s SLC40. Falcon 9 B1048 became the second F9 first stage to make a third flight; it landed successfully on the OCISLY droneship and is expected to fly again on a Dragon abort test a few months from now.
• Nusantara Satu, previously known as PSN 6, is the second SS/L-1300 satellite to carry an attached subsatellite; the Hispasat 30W-6 mission carried PODSAT, which was ejected in transfer orbit. This mission carries S5, a space surveillance satellite for the US Air Force Research Lab. S5 will stay attached to the host satellite until it reaches geostationary orbit, and then separate.
• The Falcon 9 second stage delivered its payloads to a 69000 km apogee supersynchronous transfer orbit.
• The US Air Force Research Lab′s S5 satellite appears to have separated from its Nusantara Satu host satellite at about 1800 UTC on Mar 4, 2019. Part of the Beresheet probe′s adapter structure was jettisoned in the ′GEO graveyard′ first to allow S5 to emerge.
• Orbits of the three GEO objects on Mar 8, 2019 were:
  • 44048 Nusantara Satu 35779 x 35791 km x 0.1 deg GEO 145.9E
  • 44065 S5 36053 x 36055 km x 0.1 deg GEO 139.3E+3.3deg W/day
  • 44066 Beresheet adapter 36131 x 36170 km x 0.1 deg GEO 133.2E+4.6deg W/day

External links:

• Satellite tracking (n2ya.com): Real time satellite tracking