MANILA, Philippines — 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 100,000 square kilometers of land area daily.
Mula weighs 130 kilograms compared with microsatellites Diwata-1 and Diwata-2, which weighed around 50 kg.
Mula is being developed under the Advanced Satellite and Know-How Transfer for the Philippines (ASP) project of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
The project is being implemented by scientists and engineers of the University of the Philippines Diliman an…
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