The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) successfully launched two locally-built cube satellites (CubeSats)—Maya-5 and Maya-6—to the International Space Station (ISS) via the SpaceX Falcon 9 while on its 28th commercial resupply mission on June 5, 2023 at around 11:47 PM PST. According to the space agency, the Maya-5 and Maya-6 CubeSats were created as a technology demonstration and educational platform developed for remote data collection using Store-and-Forward (S&F) Mechanism. [caption id="attachment_338976" align="alignnone" width="1080"] Maya-5 and Maya-6 | Image/ STAMINA4Space[/caption] The said mechanism involves collecting data and then storing it until the satellite passes over a ground station, at which point the data is forwarded to the station for analysis. Maya-3 and Maya-4, which were the first cube satellites made by Filipinos, were launched to the International Space Station in August 2021 and returned to Earth a year later. The large-scale restoration project directly addresses local deforestation and coastal degradation, which leave provincial towns highly exposed to worsening storm surges, erosion, and flash floods. Read more in our articles including "PH launches Maya-5, Maya-6 cube satellites into space" and "Big price hike for POCO phones in PH".
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) successfully launched two locally-built cube satellites (CubeSats)—Maya-5 and Maya-6—to the International Space Station (ISS) via the SpaceX Falcon 9 while on its 28th commercial resupply mission on June 5, 2023 at around 11:47 PM PST. According to the space agency, the Maya-5 and Maya-6 CubeSats were created as a technology demonstration and educational platform developed for remote data collection using Store-and-Forward (S&F) Mechanism.
[caption id="attachment_338976" align="alignnone" width="1080"] Maya-5 and Maya-6 | Image/ STAMINA4Space[/caption] The said mechanism involves collecting data and then storing it until the satellite passes over a ground station, at which point the data is forwarded to the station for analysis. Maya-3 and Maya-4, which were the first cube satellites made by Filipinos, were launched to the International Space Station in August 2021 and returned to Earth a year later. The large-scale restoration project directly addresses local deforestation and coastal degradation, which leave provincial towns highly exposed to worsening storm surges, erosion, and flash floods.
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