The Manila Bulletin reports on two amateur radio CubeSat’s, built by Philippine students and carrying APRS Digipeaters, that have now re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
The newspaper says:
After 10 months in orbit, the country’s first local university-built Filipino cube satellites (CubeSats) Maya-3 and Maya-4 re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere Aug.4 and Aug. 8 respectively, ending their mission, the Philippine Space Agency said on Tuesday, Aug. 9.
Built in a local university setting, the two cube satellites were designed and developed by the first batch of scholars under the Space Space Science and Technology Proliferation through University Partnerships (STeP-UP) project of the STAMINA4Space Program.
“Maya-3 and Maya-4 were pivotal in the development of the local space industry. These CubeSats are experimental and educational platforms, and while all low earth orbiting satellites will eventually fall to earth, what matters more are the lasting intangibles that the project brought – knowledge, skill, partnerships, and confidence that we can do it,” said Dr. Maricor Soriano, program leader of STAMINA4Space Program.
Read the full story at
https://mb.com.ph/2022/08/09/first-locally-built-ph-cubesats-maya-3-maya-4-end-mission-philsa/