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 ...

, located on

Sentosa Island Sentosa Island ( ), known mononymously as Sentosa, is an island located off the southern coast of Singapore's Singapore Island, main island. The island is separated from the main island of Singapore by a channel of water, the Keppel Harbour, a ...

. It was opened on 23 October 1971 by then-president

Benjamin Sheares Benjamin Henry Sheares (12 August 1907 – 12 May 1981) was a Singaporean physician and academic who served as the second president of Singapore between 1971 until his death in 1981. Of Eurasian Singaporeans, Eurasian descent, Sheares was b ...

. The second antenna was built two years later, in 1972, as the amount of traffic grew. This station is managed and owned by

Singtel Singapore Telecommunications Limited, trading as Singtel, is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate, the country's principal fixed-line operator and one of the four major mobile network operators operating in the country. Overview T ...

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