The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) early this month marked the second anniversary of the signing of the Philippine Space Act, or Republic Act 11363, creating the agency. With the theme, “PhilSA: Gabay mula Kalawakan, Tanglaw sa Pagbangon," the celebration highlighted the increasingly valuable role of space science and technology applications…
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 100,000sq km of land area daily. Mula weighs 130kg compared with microsatellites Diwata-1 and Diwata-2, which weighed around 50 kg.