SpaceX launched a new Indonesian communications satellite from Florida on Sunday, June 18, ending the flight with a flawless rocket landing into the sea. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SATRIA-1 communications satellite took off from the Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and exploded at 6:21 p.m. ET (22:21 p.m. GMT) after a 15-minute delay. to strong winds.

Shortly after launch, the Falcon 9 first-stage launch vehicle returned to Earth for a vertical landing of SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas unmanned spacecraft, which will dock in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.

According to SpaceX’s mission statement, the landing 8.5 minutes after takeoff is the 12th launch and landing of this special launch vehicle. Previous efforts have included four Dragon missions for NASA to the International Space Station, two crewed and two robotic resupply flights.

Meanwhile, the Falcon 9 upper stage continued to move SATRIA-1 into geosynchronous orbit, eventually placing the satellite there less than 37 minutes after takeoff. SATRIA-1 (short for “Satellite of the Republic of Indonesia”) will be operated by the Indonesian company PSN on behalf of the Indonesian government.

According to The Jakarta Post, the $550 million spacecraft “aims to increase connectivity in the country by providing free Internet connections to 150,000 public facilities, including schools, regional government offices and medical facilities.”

“SATRIA-1 will have a bandwidth of 150 billion bits per second, three times the bandwidth of the nine telecommunications satellites currently used by Indonesia,” the broadcast adds.