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Agila-2, the first launched satellite of the Philippines. The satellite now operates as ABS-3. In 1974, the Philippines planned to use satellites to improve communications. The leasing of satellites from Intelsat was considered but it was later decided to lease capacity from the Indonesian Palapa system. There were interests for a national ...
The first Philippine satellite launched to space was Agila-2 which was placed to orbit in 1997. The Philippine Space Agency is the lead government organization of the Philippine space program since 2019 but all active satellites are built and operated by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its child agencies.
The projected launch date was later adjusted at least twice; June 2018 and later pushed forward to fourth quarter of 2018. It was announced that on October 26, 2018, the satellite would be launched to space via the H-IIA from Japan at the Tanegashima Space Center at around 13:08 and 13:20 .
The Philippine Space Agency ( PhilSA) is the national space agency of the Philippines. The unified space agency is defined by the Philippine Space Act (Republic Act No. 11363) which was signed into law on August 8, 2019, by President Rodrigo Duterte, [4] intended to manage and operate the decentralized space program of the Philippine government ...
Diwata-1[ 6] also known as PHL-Microsat-1 was a Philippine microsatellite launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 23, 2016, and was deployed into orbit from the ISS on April 27, 2016. It was the first Philippine microsatellite and the first satellite built and designed by Filipinos. [ 7][ 8] It was followed by Diwata-2 ...
Maya-7 →. Advanced Satellite and Know-how Transfer for the Philippines. The Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment ( MULA) is a planned Filipino satellite dedicated in Earth observation and remote sensing. Upon completion it will become the largest satellite made by Filipinos.
Maya-1 was a Filipino nanosatellite.It was developed under the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program (PHL-Microsat) and was jointly implemented by the University of the Philippines and the Department of Science and Technology as part of the Kyushu Institute of Technology-led multinational second Joint Global Multi-nations Birds Satellite (Birds-2).
Active since 2019; 5 years ago. ( 2019) Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, [ 3] providing coverage to 102 countries. It also aims to provide global mobile broadband.