{"id":611130,"date":"2026-04-16T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:12:12","slug":"two-landmark-satellite-antennas-removed-from-bukit-timah-satellite-earth-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611130\/","title":{"rendered":"Two landmark satellite antennas removed from Bukit Timah Satellite Earth Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singtel&#8217;s predecessor, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, or simply Telecoms, said at the time of the station&#8217;s construction that its site was chosen because of its distance from airports and low radio frequency interference.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Straits Times report, the facility cost S$65.5 million at the time, including S$39 million for the one antenna it had then, as well as communications equipment. This antenna had a diameter of 32m.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced at the time of Bukit Timah Satellite Earth Station&#8217;s official opening that it would get a second antenna, with a diameter of 21m, by the end of 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singtel&#8217;s predecessor, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, or simply Telecoms, said at the time of the station&#8217;s construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,63738,285,8056],"class_list":["post-611130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-singtel","tag-space","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}