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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 ...
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.
The satellite's cost was estimated at US$243 million and has a design based on the Space Systems/Loral FS-1300 satellite bus. ABS-3 was deployed to orbit by a Chinese Long March 3B rocket in Sichuan province on 20 August 1997. The satellite was expected to operate for 15 years. Reach "Agila" is the local name for the Philippine eagle
The satellite was renamed Agila-1 and became the first satellite in orbit to be owned by the country. MSC launched the country's second satellite, Agila-2, with the assistance of China. The communications satellite was launched through the Long March 3B at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on August 19, 1997.
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 ...
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
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 currently ...
Diwata-1 [6] also known as PHL-Microsat-1 was a Philippine microsatellite launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 23, 2016, and was deployed into orbit from the ISS on April 27, 2016. It was the first Philippine microsatellite and the first satellite built and designed by Filipinos. [7] [8] It was followed by Diwata-2 ...