A microsatellite for maritime communications developed by the Satellite Technology And Research Center (STAR) under the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering (NUS CDE), and A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), has been successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikotta, India, on Saturday, 22 April 2023 at 4:50pm (Singapore time).