# LAPAN-A1 (LAPAN-TUBSAT)
*missions*

## Specifications
- **country**: Indonesia
- **operator**: brin
- **actual launch**: 2007-01-10
- **orbit type**: SSO
- **platform**: tubsat-microsatellite-bus
- **launch vehicle**: isro-pslv
- **current status**: ended
- **tasking supported**: false
- **current geographic priority**: Indonesia regional imaging from LAPAN ground-station coverage
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: brin
- **attributes**: {"country":"Indonesia","operator":"brin","actual_launch":"2007-01-10","orbit_type":"SSO","platform":"tubsat-microsatellite-bus","launch_vehicle":"isro-pslv","current_status":"ended","tasking_supported":false,"current_geographic_priority":"Indonesia regional imaging from LAPAN ground-station coverage"}

## Editorial
LAPAN-A1, also known as LAPAN-TUBSAT, was an Indonesian experimental Earth-observation microsatellite developed for regional imaging from LAPAN ground-station coverage.[^aprsaf-lapan-a1] It carried a video-camera payload for experimental Earth observation. Its payload includes a 3CCD colour camera with 6 m ground sampling and a CCD colour camera with 200 m ground sampling [^gunter-lapan-a1]. The satellite launched on 2007-01-10 on ISRO PSLV-C7.[^isro-pslv-launches] It had completed two successful years in orbit by 2009, and operations are recorded as ending in 2013.[^aprsaf-lapan-a1][^gunter-lapan-a1]

## Compositional position
- LAPAN-A1 (LAPAN-TUBSAT) --[mission_payloads]--> lapan-tubsat-video-camera-payload (products)
- LAPAN-A1 (LAPAN-TUBSAT) --[mission_buses]--> tubsat-microsatellite-bus (products)
- LAPAN-A1 (LAPAN-TUBSAT) --[related-topic]--> disaster-damage-assessment (topics)

## Sources
- [aprsaf-lapan-a1] | Two Years of LAPAN-TUBSAT Operating in Orbit | https://www.aprsaf.org/data/feature/feature_076.pdf | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-21 | published=2009-01-01
- [gunter-lapan-a1] | LAPAN-Tubsat / LAPAN A1, Gunter's Space Page | https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lapan-tubsat.htm | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-21
- [isro-pslv-launches] | List of PSLV Launches, ISRO | https://www.isro.gov.in/ISRO_EN/PSLV_Launchers.html | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-21

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