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How a Chinese rocket failure boosted Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Indonesia

  • February 22, 2024
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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How a Chinese rocket failure boosted Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Indonesia

Subject: Science and tech

Section: Space tech

Context:

  • How a Chinese rocket failure boosted Elon Musk’s SpaceX in Indonesia

More on news:

  • Since the incident, SpaceX has successfully launched two Indonesian satellites, with a third scheduled for the coming Tuesday, while China has handled none.
  • The global space industry is witnessing fierce competition for dominance, with the satellite market alone valued at $281 billion in 2022.

About Nusantara Satu:

  • Nusantara Satu (formerly known as PSN VI or PSN-6) is an Indonesian communications satellite. It is a large high-throughput satellite (HTS) providing voice and data communications, and Internet access throughout the Indonesian archipelago and Southeast Asia.
  • Nusantara Satu is a communications satellite developed and designed by SSL for PT PasifikSatelit Nusantara (PSN), the first private company in the telecommunications and information services sector in Indonesia.
  • Nusantara-2 was the second satellite launch awarded by Indonesia to CGWIC, matching the two carried out by SpaceX at that time.

About Space Race:

  • China launched a record 67 rockets last year, out of 223 globally.
  • China is  only behind the United States, which had 109 launches, 90% of which were done by SpaceX

About  Kessler Syndrome:

  • The Kessler Syndrome Is a theoretical scenario in which Earth’s orbit is overpopulated with objects and debris, preventing the use of satellites in certain sections of Earth’s orbit.
  • Space debris are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function.
  • These include derelict spacecraft, mission-related debris, and particularly-numerous in-Earth orbit fragmentation debris from the breakup of derelict rocket bodies and spacecraft.
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