Badminton! Satellite Nusantara Lima With A Capacity Of 160 Gbps Officially Investigating

Satellite Nusantara Lima with a Falcon 9 rocket (photo: YouTube screenshot)

JAKARTA - After experiencing several delays due to bad weather, the Nusantara Lima (N5) satellite belonging to PT Pacific Satelit Nusantara (PSN) finally officially launched on Friday, September 12 at around 08:56 WIB.

The satellite was originally scheduled to launch on September 9, 2025 at 20.01 local time or September 10, 2025 at 07.01 WIB. But unfortunately, due to weather constraints, the launch of N5 reversed to 20.46 Orlando time (07.46 WIB).

However, due to the weather that had not improved, the launch of the Nusantara Lima Satellite was finally postponed again until the next day.

Directly flying using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the Indonesian satellite managed to fly into space on September 12 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States.

The N5 satellite will occupy the orbit slot 113 degrees East Longitude, known as the "golden spot" because it covers the territory of Indonesia thoroughly and provides connectivity at high speed, especially in Eastern Indonesia.

The Nusantara Lima satellite has the largest capacity of more than 160 Gbps in Asia with 101 Ka-band beam spots, making it a satellite with Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) technology.

This satellite is projected to operate in the First Quarter of 2026. The Nusantara Lima satellite has 8 earth stations in Banda Aceh, Bengkulu, Cikarang, Gresik, Banjarmasin, Tarakan, Kupang, and Makassar, to support its operations.

Not only for internet access in the 3T Indonesia region, the reach of Nusantara Lima also includes neighboring countries including the Philippines and Malaysia will also be connected to the same signal.

The Ministry of Communication and Digital has also confirmed the registration of the national satellite orbit slot & sovereignty.