SpaceX Will Launch Red And White Telkomsat Satellite 2

Launch of Red and White Satellite 2 (photo: X @SpaceX)

JAKARTA Telkomsat, a satellite service provider from Indonesia, will launch the Red and White satellite on Wednesday, February 21. This satellite will be launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

The plan is that the Red and White 2 will take off from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Station at 03.11 WIB. If the launch preparations do not run smoothly, the satellite will be launched the day after.

The launch count will be carried out 38 minutes before launch. After the countdown ends, Falcon 9 will send the Red and White 2 satellite into a geonsinkron orbit. About two minutes after launch, the Falcon 9 stage will separate.

After the first and second stages were successfully separated, the first phase booster would return Earth and land on the drone Just Read the Instruction about 8 minutes after launch. The drone is in the Atlantic Ocean.

The second phase of Falcon 9 will continue to launch with the Red and White 2 satellite. Based on information shared by Telkomsat, Merah Putih 2 will offer a large capacity throughout Indonesia for a dozen years.

"The Red and White Satellite 2 will provide a capacity of more than 32 Gbps throughout Indonesia, this satellite has a service period of up to 16 years," Telkomsat wrote through its official social media on Monday, February 19.

Meanwhile, the first Red and White satellite was launched in 2018 and cost US$166 million (Rp2.6 trillion). Just like the second launch, the Telkom subsidiary chose SpaceX as a launch contractor.