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Nusantara Lima

Falcon 9 Block 5, SpaceX

Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch time

T-0

Fri 12 Sept, 03:56:00 CEST

01:56:00 UTC

The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.

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Launch probability 45%

Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule, Surface Electric Fields Rule

Launch record updated by LL2

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Mission

Nusantara Lima on Falcon 9 Block 5. Fri 12 Sept 2025, 01:56:00 UTC. Reported outcome: Success. Launch site: Space Launch Complex 40. Source: Launch Library 2.

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

Mission type
Communications
Orbit
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Rocket file imagery

A Falcon 9 rises above its launch tower through white exhaust clouds under a pale blue sky.

File imagery: Crew-9, 28 September 2024. Falcon 9 lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40.

Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber · Public domain (NASA) · Source

Launch timeline

Times are relative to liftoff.

  1. T-38 min

    GO for Prop Load

    Launch director verifies go for propellant load

  2. T-35 min

    Stage 1 LOX Load

    Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage

  3. T-35 min

    Prop Load

    Start of propelland loading

  4. T-16 min

    Stage 2 LOX Load

    Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage

  5. T-7 min

    Engine Chill

    Start of engine chilling

  6. T-1 min

    Startup

    The onboard computer takes control over the countdown and runs last checks

  7. T-1 min

    Tank Press

    Fuel tanks are pressurized to flight levels

  8. T-45 s

    GO for Launch

    Launch director verifies go for launch

  9. T-3 s

    Ignition

    Start of the engine ignition sequence

  10. T-0

    Liftoff

    First upwards movement of the rocket

  11. T+1 min 12 s

    Max-Q

    Maximum dynamic pressure

  12. T+2 min 28 s

    MECO

    Cut-off of the main engine

  13. T+2 min 31 s

    Stage 2 Separation

    Separation of the second stage from the first

  14. T+2 min 38 s

    SES-1

    First start of the second engine

  15. T+3 min 24 s

    Fairing Separation

    Separation of the payload fairing

  16. T+6 min 13 s

    Entry Burn Startup

    Start of the atmospheric entry burn

  17. T+6 min 35 s

    Entry Burn Shutdown

    End of the atmospheric entry burn

  18. T+8 min 7 s

    SECO-1

    First cut-off of the second engine

  19. T+8 min 9 s

    Stage 1 Landing Burn

    Start of the first stage landing burn

  20. T+8 min 32 s

    Stage 1 Landing

    Landing of the first stage

  21. T+23 min 13 s

    SES-2

    Second start of the second engine

  22. T+23 min 57 s

    SECO-2

    Second cut-off of the second engine

  23. T+27 min 25 s

    Payload Separation

    Final deployment of the payload from the rocket

Slip history

Changes recorded by Space Right Now

No changes since we started tracking on .

    Source updates from Launch Library 2 (37)

    Announcements supplied by LL2 may predate our tracking. They are separate from changes observed by Space Right Now.

    1. LL2 update

      Satellite in operation.

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    2. LL2 update

      Spacecraft separation.

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    3. LL2 update

      Liftoff.

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    4. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 12 at 01:56 UTC

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    5. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 12 at 01:45 UTC

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    6. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 12 at 01:29 UTC

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    7. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 12 at 00:59 UTC

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    8. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 12 at 00:29 UTC

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    9. LL2 update

      Updated launch weather, 45% GO.

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    10. LL2 update

      Delayed to September 11 LT.

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    11. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 11 at 01:55 UTC

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    12. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 11 at 01:00 UTC

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    13. LL2 update

      Rescheduled for September 10 LT.

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    14. LL2 update

      Hold at T-00:29 for weather.

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    15. LL2 update

      Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

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    16. LL2 update

      Updated launch weather, 40% GO.

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    17. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 10 at 01:37 UTC

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    18. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 10 at 01:17 UTC

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    19. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 10 at 00:47 UTC

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    20. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 10 at 00:02 UTC

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    21. LL2 update

      Updated launch weather, 15% GO at start of window (30% at end).

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    22. LL2 update

      Launch scrubbed for the day.

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    23. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 09 at 01:54 UTC

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    24. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 09 at 01:32 UTC

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    25. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 09 at 01:02 UTC

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    26. LL2 update

      Tweaked launch window.

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    27. LL2 update

      Now targeting Sep 09 at 00:32 UTC

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    28. LL2 update

      Weather is 30% favorable for launch (at start of window, 45% at end).

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    29. LL2 update

      GO for launch.

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    30. LL2 update

      Added launch window per marine navigation warnings.

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    31. LL2 update

      NET September 8.

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    32. LL2 update

      NET September.

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    33. LL2 update

      NET late August.

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    34. LL2 update

      NET May 2025.

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    35. LL2 update

      NET mid-2024.

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    36. LL2 update

      Targeting December 2023

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    37. LL2 update

      Adding launch TBD 2023

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    Launch pad

    Space Launch Complex 40

    Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (US)

    Coordinates: 28.56194122, -80.57735736

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    Launch data: The Space Devs (Launch Library 2)

    Launch plans change. Times are estimates from the source, not a guarantee of liftoff.