The Maya-2 Flight Model (Image: courtesy of BIRDS-4 Project)
Nearly after a month after it successfully launched into space, the Philippines’ second nanosatellite is now orbiting the Earth.
Maya-2, which was designed by three Filipino engineers, was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 21.
It launched to its targeted altitude in Low Earth Orbit from ISS on Sunday, March 14, at 7:20 p.m., as per the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Information Office on Monday, March 15.
Maya-2’s release was broadcast in a live stream from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Sunday.
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Maya-2 was deployed into space with two other cube satellites (cubesats) from Paraguay and Japan. All three are part of Kyushu Institute of Technology’s (Kyutech) 4th Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite (BIRDS-4) Project.
Izrael Zenar C. Bautista, Mark Angelo C. Purio and Marloun Sejera are the Filipino engineers behind Maya-2. They are Kyutech scholars taking up doctoral degrees in space systems engineering and space engineering through funding from the Department of Science and Technology’s STAMINA4Space program.
