Established | 1996 |
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Research type | Satellite ground station |
Address | Ilanin Forest West, Subic Bay Free Port |
Location |
Morong, Bataan,
Philippines 14°45′33.1″N 120°16′47.3″E / 14.759194°N 120.279806°E |
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 operated by ABS. [1] [2]
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] 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]