# LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB)
*missions*

## Specifications
- **country**: Indonesia
- **operator**: brin
- **actual launch**: 2016-06-22
- **orbit type**: SSO
- **platform**: lapan-a-microsatellite-bus
- **launch vehicle**: isro-pslv
- **swath km**: 120
- **revisit days**: 21
- **tasking supported**: false
- **current geographic priority**: Land-use, natural-resource, environment and maritime monitoring
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: sw
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: brin
- **attributes**: {"country":"Indonesia","operator":"brin","actual_launch":"2016-06-22","orbit_type":"SSO","platform":"lapan-a-microsatellite-bus","launch_vehicle":"isro-pslv","swath_km":120,"revisit_days":21,"tasking_supported":false,"current_geographic_priority":"Land-use, natural-resource, environment and maritime monitoring"}

## Editorial
LAPAN-A3, also known as LAPAN-IPB, is an Indonesian sun-synchronous microsatellite for multispectral remote sensing, AIS maritime monitoring, and experimental payload operations.[^hakim-lapan-a3-preprocessing][^gunter-lapan-a3] Its multispectral imager has four blue, green, red, and NIR pushbroom channels, 15 m resolution, 120 km swath, and a 21-day revisit [^hakim-lapan-a3-preprocessing]. Other payloads include AIS, a 3 m digital/video camera, and a thermal imager.[^hakim-lapan-a3-preprocessing][^gunter-lapan-a3] LAPAN-A3 launched on 2016-06-22 on ISRO PSLV-C34 with the Cartosat-2 Series Satellite mission.[^isro-pslv-launches] In 2018 it was operating nominally and producing imagery and AIS data regularly.[^hakim-lapan-a3-preprocessing]

## Compositional position
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[mission_payloads]--> lapan-a3-msi (products)
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[mission_payloads]--> lapan-ais-receiver (products)
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[mission_payloads]--> lapan-a3-video-camera (products)
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[mission_payloads]--> lapan-a3-thermal-imager (products)
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[mission_buses]--> lapan-a-microsatellite-bus (products)
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[related-topic]--> land-cover-change (topics)
- LAPAN-A3 (LAPAN-IPB) --[related-topic]--> maritime-domain-awareness (topics)

## Sources
- [hakim-lapan-a3-preprocessing] | Development of Systematic Image Preprocessing of LAPAN-A3/IPB Multispectral Images | https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09189 | tier=peer-reviewed | accessed=2026-06-21 | published=2019-01-26
- [gunter-lapan-a3] | LAPAN A3, Gunter's Space Page | https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lapan-a3.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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