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The first Philippine satellite launched to space was Agila-2 which was placed to orbit in 1997. The Philippine Space Agency is the lead government organization of the Philippine space program since 2019 but all active satellites are built and operated by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its child agencies.
Agila-1. Agila-1 or Mabuhay was launched on March 20, 1987, under the name Palapa B2-P in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was originally under Indonesian company, PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara until it was acquired by Philippine company, Mabuhay Satellite Corporation which is under PLDT in 1996. Upon its acquisition by Mabuhay, it became ...
"Agila" is the local name for the Philippine eagle ABS-3's Ku-band coverage zone encompasses Taiwan , portions of mainland China , Vietnam and the Philippines . The 24 Ku-band transponders of the satellite may be commanded by ground control to combine into 12 high-powered transponders with 220-watt amplifiers for the purpose of broadcasting ...
Mabuhay Satellite Corporation (MSC) was a Filipino aerospace corporation responsible for operating communication satellites and before 2009, the only Philippine company to do so. It was later renamed as Mabuhay Investment Corporation (MIC) and became a holding company owned by PLDT. [ 1] It once owned the Agila 2 satellite which provides ...
The Philippine Communications Satellite was established in the same decade which provided satellite communications in Asia. Development continued in the late 80s led by the private sector, with the country's first satellites, Agila-1 which was originally launched as an Indonesian satellite. [ 1 ]
Location. Morong, Bataan, Philippines. 14°45′33.1″N 120°16′47.3″E. / 14.759194°N 120.279806°E / 14.759194; 120.279806. Operating agency. Asia Broadcast Satellite. The Subic Bay Space Center ( SCC) also known as the Subic Bay Teleport is a ground station at the Subic Bay Free Port in Morong, Bataan, Philippines. It is ...
Philippines: Mabuhay (Agila 1) (former Palapa B2P) Mabuhay: Delta-3920: Cape Canaveral: 20 March 1987: Originally operated and launched for Indonesian company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara. Acquired while on orbit by Mabuhay in 1996 making it the first Philippine owned satellite. Mabuhay 1 (Agila 2) SS/Loral: Chang Zheng 3B: Xichang: 19 August 1997
The satellite is named Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA). [4] MULA would be the first of a "next-generation satellites" under the Philippine space program, with the team behind the satellite building on the knowledge gained in developing the Diwata and Maya nanosatellites. [5] The investment cost for the satellite is at least US$34 ...