The Sentosa Satellite Earth Station (; ) is Singapore's first
satellite earth station
A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves fro ...
. The station is located at
Sentosa Island
Sentosa Island, known mononymously as Sentosa, and formerly ''Pulau Belakang Mati'', is an island located off the southern coast of Singapore's main island. The island is separated from the main island of Singapore by a channel of water, the K ...
. It was established on 23 October 1971.
The second antenna was built two years later in 1972 as more traffic grows. This station is managed and owned by
SingTel.
References
1970 establishments in Singapore
Earth stations in Singapore
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