2020 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Nusantara Dua
failureLong March 3B | Nusantara Dua
Nusantara Dua is a high throughput communications satellite built by CAST for Indonesian satellite operator PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara. It will replace the Palapa D satellite. Nusantara Dua will provide broadband internet and broadcasting access to users in Indonesia, as well as some regions of Asia-Pacific and Australia.
Overview
- Date / time
- April 9, 2020 at 11:46 AM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
- Mission
- Nusantara Dua
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit
FailureThird stage of the rocket suffered an anomaly resulting in only one of the two engines operating properly, and it broke up along with the payload while reentering the atmosphere.