The country’s Maya-5 and Maya-6 cube satellites (cubesats), the second batch of Philippine university-built cubesats, were successfully launched to the International Space Station on June 5, according to the Philippine Space Agency. READ:
As reported by PhilSA, the CubeSats, weighing approximately 1.15 kilograms each, will move along an orbit similar to the space station at an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers once they are released into space.Maya-5 and Maya-6
In addition, it is also designed to increase the use of domestic capabilities by switching to locally accessible components, boards, and structural frameworks. “The Maya-5 and Maya-6 CubeSats are a technology demonstration and educational platform developed for remote data collection through Store-and-Forward Mechanism, similar to its predecessor from Kyutech’s 4th Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite Project, Maya-2, which was decommissioned on 5 July 2022,” they added.
Both cubesats were created with the help of the Department of Science and Technology, PhilSA, UP Diliman, and Japan’s Kyushu Institute of Technology as part of the STAMINA4Space Program.
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