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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. [7]
The first Agila satellite successfully launched from the United States on December 29, 2024 after suffering a launch abort on December 21. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] It is projected to be operational by February 14, 2025 once it establishes its position over the Philippines.
Agila-1: Satellite: March 20, 1987 Cape Canaveral SLC-17: Delta-3920 PAM-D: March 20, 1987 GEO: N/A Deorbited in January 1998 Privately owned . First Philippine satellite through acquisition while in orbit. Formerly named Palapa B2-P (Indonesia). Agila-2: Satellite August 19, 1997 Xichang 2: Chang Zheng 3B: August 19, 1997 GEO: N/A
It once owned the Agila 2 satellite which provides coverage in the Asia-Pacific region. Aside from satellite operation, it also provided satellite-related services. It operated two space centers, namely the Mabuhaysat Subic Space Center, its main hub, and the Mabuhaysat Zamboanga Space Center at Zamboanga City, its back-up hub. [2]
The satellite was renamed Agila-1 and became the first satellite in orbit to be owned by the country. [20] [21] [22] 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.
The ornate Crescent Beach Hotel was built there in the 1890s. After it burnt to the ground in 1973, then-owners Joe and Gloria Barry built the restaurant, adding Victorian-style gardens.
It was built to manage the operations of Agila-1; the first Philippine-owned satellite. [3] In 2009, Mabuhay and Hong Kong–based ABS signed an agreement in which the former ceded all of its assets including the ground station and the Agila-2 satellite to the latter. [4] [5] [6]
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