#philippine space agency

The Philippine Space Agency and the National Irrigation Administration have signed a deal to use satellite data to improve irrigation and water management in the Philippines. 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. The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) announced on Monday, June 27 that the Filipino science expirement entry, "Rotation of ‘Dumbbell-shaped’ Objects in Space" is among the chosen experiments to be performed in the International Space Station (ISS) through the Asian Try Zero-G (ATZG) 2022 competition. The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) recently launched SIKAP+, which stood for the Space Infrastructure, Know-How, and Applications Acceleration through Promotion and Training project, in aims to expand scientific research and cooperation among Asian nations. We will teach them how to control a satellite, how to process data from it, how to establish amateur ground receiving stations to be used in communication," said Shielo Muta, Chief Science Research Specialist of PhilSA's Space Mission Control and Operations Division, in an interview with the Philippine News Agency last Wednesday. Read more in our articles including "PhilSA, NIA partner to improve irrigation using satellite data" and "PH launches Maya-5, Maya-6 cube satellites into space".