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By Shaira Panela / rappler.com – Maya-1, the first cube satellite of the Philippines (CubeSat) flew into the space by SpaceX rocket Falcon-9 CRS 15. The rocket was launched into space on Friday, June 29, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States.
In April 2018, at least 800 CubeSats were launched in space.
cm3 and weighs about a kilogram, aims to collect data from the ground sensor terminals and transmit them to a ground control system. Maya-1 also has an automatic packet radio service digipeater, allowing it to communicate with leg-presses. It also has two cameras to capture images for research purposes.
Inside Maya-1's body is a low-cost global positioning system (GPS), and a device that could measure the magnetic field in the space. Maya-1 can also record incidents of data corruption due to space radiation.
The spacecraft carrying Maya-1 has 2,700 kilograms of supplies and scientific equipment. Space Station crew members will unpack the cargo when the cargo arrives at the lab in orbit early Monday morning, July 2 (US time).
Maya-1 is one of the 3 cubic satellites of the world's second joint multi-national bird project or BIRDS-2 project of the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. Other CubeSats join Maya-1, including BHUTAN-1 from Bhutan and UiTMSAT-1 from Malaysia
Maya-1 will be put into orbit in August
Maya-1 belongs to the family of satellites produced by the microsatellite of scientific observation of the Philippines land (PHL-Microsat), a research program jointly implemented by the University of the Philippines Diliman and the Department of Science and Technology – Advanced Science and Technology Institute. PHL-Microsat has already been launched in the space Diwata-1 and Diwata-2
Two Filipino graduates of the PHL-Microsat program have developed Maya-1 in Japan. Joven Javier, currently in master, and Adrian Salces, in doctoral thesis.
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