Space technology as a tool for development

By The Editorial Board

Jun 09, 2023 12:10 am

LAST Monday, a rocket was launched at Cape Canaveral in Florida on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The rocket was also carrying two of the Philippines newest cube satellites, or CubeSats, that will eventually be deployed on an orbit 400 kilometers above the Earth.

The CubeSats, Maya-5 and Maya-6, developed by a group of nanosatellite engineering students from the University of the Philippines, are equipped with camera, image classification and storage systems.

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