The eagle — or rather, the maya — has landed.
Maya-1, the first nanosatellite of the Philippines, came back from space on Nov. 23 after two years orbiting the Earth, according to a statement on Friday, Nov. 27, from the Stamina4Space program, which is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
The cube satellite lasted 836 days, 5 hours, 29 minutes and 24 seconds in Low Earth Orbit.
Making the achievement even more remarkable is that it was only expected to stay in orbit for less than a year, said graduate student Adrian Salces, who helped develop Maya-1.
Salces developed Maya-1 with fellow graduate student Joven Javier under a research program called …
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