Philippines' CubeSats Maya-3, Maya-4 officially launched to International Space Station

Philippines' own CubeSats Maya-3 and Maya-4 officially launched off to the International Space Station on Sunday.

Space Technology and Applications Mastery, Innovation, and Advancement (STAMINA4Space) Program announced on Twitter that the two CubeSats have officially left Earth aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a Dragon C208 cargo as part of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission.

STAMINA4Space said updates on the docking of the Dragon cargo carrying CubeSats #Maya3 and #Maya4 will be shared on Monday.

Maya-3 and Maya-4 are the first Philippine university-built satellites designed and developed by the first batch of scholars under the STAMINA4Space Program: Project 3 - Space Science and Technology Proliferation through University Partnerships (STeP-UP).

LAUNCH SUCCESS!????????

The @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully been launched to the @Space_Station.

Updates on the docking of the Dragon cargo carrying CubeSats #Maya3 and #Maya4 will be shared tomorrow. Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/wHlf2vg7fR

— STAMINA4Space (@STAMINA4Space) August 29, 2021

According to the STAMINA4Space's website, the two satellites' mission is to demonstrate image and video capture of the RGB camera and acquisition of ground data such as temperature, humidity and wind speed using Store and Forward capability of the CubeSat.

The project is under the support of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), DOST-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), Kyushu Institute of Technology, and the Philippine Space Agency.

—Jannielyn Bigtas/MGP, GMA News