NicaSat 1 (LSTSAT 1)

NicaSat 1 [CAST]

Nicaragua has announced in 2013, that CAST has been selected to manufacture and launch the NicaSat 1 communications satellite. It will be based on the DFH-4 Bus. Launch is planned for 2019 on a CZ-3B/G2 rocket.

The satellite project has apparently been renamed LSTSAT-1.

Nation:	Nicaragua
Type / Application:	Communication
Operator:
Contractors:	CAST
Equipment:
Configuration:	DFH-4 Bus
Propulsion:
Power:	2 deployable solar arrays, batteries
Lifetime:	15 years
Mass:
Orbit:	GEO

Satellite	COSPAR	Date	LS		Launch Vehicle	Remarks
NicaSat 1 (LSTSAT 1)	-	202x	Xi		CZ-3B/G2

Launch Sites:

Xi = Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China

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