NEWEYE IN THE SKY Artist’s impression of SSTL’s TrueColour spacecraft, whose design is the basis of PH’s Mula satellite. —PHOTO COURTESY OF SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines will soon be sending its biggest Filipino-made satellite to space.
Called Mula, or Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment, the newest Earth-observation satellite can capture operational-quality images of approximately 100,000 square kilometers of land area daily.
Mula weighs 130 kilograms compared with microsatellites Diwata-1 and Diwata-2, which weighed around 50 kg.
Mula is being developed under the Advanced Satellite and Know-How Transfer for the Philippines (ASP) project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
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The project is being implemented by scientists and engineers of the University of the Philippines Diliman and the DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (Asti), in coordination with the Philippine Space Agency (Philsa).
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The Philsa will oversee its completion and launch in 2023, as well as the satellite’s management and operation.
