Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
First tandem satellite broadcast (with Syncom 3) December 13, 1962 United States: Syncom 2: First communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit: July 16, 1963 United States: Syncom 3: First communications satellite in geostationary orbit First Olympic broadcast to international audiences First tandem satellite broadcast (with Relay 1) August ...
Launched on the same rocket as the first Omani satellite Armenia: Hayasat-1: Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory: Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory, Center of Scientific Innovation and Education Falcon 9: Vandenberg SLC-4E: 1 December 2023 Formerly part of the Soviet Union. Launched on the same rocket as the first Irish satellite Ireland: EIRSAT-1
The first Philippine satellites were operated by private companies. The first Filipino-owned satellite is Agila-1, a satellite acquired in 1996 by Mabuhay Satellite Corporation from PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, an Indonesian company. The first Philippine satellite launched to space was Agila-2 which was placed to orbit in 1997.
The ground station was built in 1996 as the Mabuhay Satellite Space Center by the Mabuhay Philippines Satellite Corporation (MPSC), a consortium of Philippine telecommunications companies. It was built to manage the operations of Agila-1; the first Philippine-owned satellite. [3]
Upon its acquisition by Mabuhay, it became the first Philippine satellite through acquisition while in orbit. Palapa B2-P was later renamed to "Agila-1", the local name for the Philippine eagle. The satellite's operation ended in January 1998 and was deorbited. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Founded on 10 November 1994 bearing the name Mabuhay Philippine Satellite Corporation (MPSC), the company was established primarily to build, own, operate and maintain an international satellite facility and other forms of telecommunications equipment that are capable of providing telecommunications and broadcasting on a domestic and international level. [3]
The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) was founded on December 2, 1986, as the result of a merger between SPACE and the Direct Broadcast Satellite Association (DBSA). [75] Videocipher II used analog scrambling on its video signal and Data Encryption Standard–based encryption on its audio signal.
Dream Satellite TV was the first all-digital Direct-To-Home (DTH) television broadcasting service via satellite in the Philippines. Broadcasting from the Dream Broadcast Center located at the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga .