# NEC NEXTAR-300L bus
*bus . products*

NEC small-satellite bus family used as ASNARO-2 heritage and reported as LOTUSat platform heritage.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: nec
- **bus**: {"platform_class":"medium"}
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: claimed
- **provider**: nec
- **attributes**: {"kind":"bus","product_status":"operational","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"nec","description":"NEC small-satellite bus family used as ASNARO-2 heritage and reported as LOTUSat platform heritage.","bus":"{\"platform_class\":\"medium\"}"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
NEC NEXTAR-300L is a bus system in NEC's NEXTAR small-satellite family. The NEXTAR NX-300L bus system supported ASNARO-1 and ASNARO-2.[^nec-nextar] Those ASNARO applications have spacecraft masses of 500 kg and 570 kg, placing them in the medium platform class.[^nec-nextar] Payload capacity, power budget, data-rate, and pointing envelope remain unspecified for this bus.

## Compositional position
- lotusat-1 (missions) --[mission_buses]--> NEC NEXTAR-300L bus
- lotusat-2 (missions) --[mission_buses]--> NEC NEXTAR-300L bus

## Sources
- [nec-nextar] | NEXTAR satellite systems, NEC | https://www.nec.com/en/global/solutions/space/satellite_systems/nextar.html | tier=operator-datasheet | accessed=2026-06-26 | author=NEC

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