by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Aug 10, 2022 | Good Tech
The University of the Philippines’ first cube satellites (CubeSats), Maya-3 and Maya-4, have ended their space mission. The pioneering satellites designed and developed by the first batch of scholars under the STAMINA4Space Program were decommissioned 1 year...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Oct 6, 2021 | Good Tech
The Philippines’ Maya-3 and Maya-4 cube satellites (CubeSats) built at the University of the Philippines Diliman have just been released to space orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). The Maya CubeSats were successfully deployed from the ISS on...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Aug 28, 2021 | Good School
UPDATED: The launch of the Philippines’ first university-built satellites from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) onboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a Dragon C208 cargo bound for the International Space Station (ISS) from the National...
by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Jul 19, 2021 | Good Tech
Filipino space engineers Izrael Zenar Bautista (UP Diliman), Mark Angelo Purio (Adamson University), and Marloun Sejera (Mapúa University) shared their journey of building the Philippines’ Maya 2 cube satellite during a recent talk show of the Department of...
by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Jun 10, 2021 | Good Tech
The Philippines’ space program is preparing for its next generation of Earth Observation satellites dubbed the Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment or MULA. The MULA commercial-grade satellite will weigh 130 kilograms, the country’s biggest since the...