Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Philippine Satellite DIWATA-1 heads back home

Diwata-1 also known as PHL-Microsat-1 is a Philippine microsatellite launched on March 23, 2016 to the International Space Station (ISS), and was deployed into orbit from the ISS on April 27, 2016. Diwata-1 is the Philippines’ first microsatellite and the first satellite built and designed by Filipinos.

The satellite was named after a type of divine being from Philippine mythology, the diwata. With multiple scientific instruments linked to the satellite, like High Precision Telescope (HPT); Space-borne Multispectral Imager (SMI) with Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter (LCTF); and the Wide Field Camera (WFC), Diwata-1 is capable of the following:


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