OTD In Space - August 19: 1st Filipino Satellite Launches Into Orbit
On Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines launched its own satellite for the first time.
Before then, the country's only communications satellite was one that had been purchased from Indonesia after it was already in orbit. One year later, the Mabuhay Philippines Satellite Corporation sent their own satellite into orbit using a Chinese Long March 3B rocket. The new satellite was named Agila-2 in honor of the great Philippine eagle. To this day, it provides the most powerful satellite coverage in Asia and the Pacific. In 2009, the Philippines sold it to the Asia Broadcast Satellite company.
Before then, the country's only communications satellite was one that had been purchased from Indonesia after it was already in orbit. One year later, the Mabuhay Philippines Satellite Corporation sent their own satellite into orbit using a Chinese Long March 3B rocket. The new satellite was named Agila-2 in honor of the great Philippine eagle. To this day, it provides the most powerful satellite coverage in Asia and the Pacific. In 2009, the Philippines sold it to the Asia Broadcast Satellite company.
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00:00On this day, in space.
00:04In 1997, the Philippines launched its own satellite for the first time.
00:08Before then, the country's only communications satellite was one that had been purchased from Indonesia
00:12after it was already in orbit.
00:14One year later, the Mabuhay Philippine Satellite Corporation sent their own satellite into orbit
00:18using a Chinese Long March 3B rocket.
00:20The new satellite was named Agila 2 in honor of the great Philippine eagle.
00:24To this day, it provides the most powerful satellite coverage in Asia and the Pacific.
00:28In 2009, the Philippines sold it to the Asia Broadcast Satellite Company.
00:32And that's what happened on this day in space.
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