On March 20, 1987, NASA launched an Indonesian communications satellite called Palapa B2-P. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com
It would later become the first satellite owned by the Philippines. Almost 10 years after the satellite launched into orbit, Pasifik Satelit Nusantara — the Indonesian company that owned it — sold it to the Mabuhay Satellite Corporation in the Philippines. The country had been trying to establish it