Maya-2
Maya-2 was a Filipino nanosatellite. It succeeded Maya-1, the first Filipino nanosatellite, which was deorbited in November 2020.
Background
Maya-2 was a nanosatellite or a 1U-class CubeSat measuring and weighing. It was the successor to Maya-1 which ended its operations on November 23, 2020. Maya-2 was developed by Filipino students sent to the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan through the Department of Science and Technology's Space Science and Technology Proliferation through University Partnerships project under the STAMINA4Space Program. This is the second Cube Satellite and the first inter-university collaboration in the country, jointly built by the University of the Philippines - Diliman, Adamson University, and Mapúa University.Maya-2 was developed under the fourth Joint Global Multination Birds Satellite project initiated by the KIT. Under the program, two other identical CubeSats; a Paraguayan and a Japanese satellite.
Maya-2 is part of a series of satellite named after the Chestnut munia, one of the various birds known locally in the Philippines as the maya.
Development
A team of three Filipino engineers, Izrael Zenar Bautista, Mark Angelo Purio, and Marloun Sejera , developed Maya-2. The three are DOST scholars pursuing doctorate degrees in space engineering at KIT. Bautista is also the project manager of the Birds-4 program.Development of Maya-2 began in 2018 but was hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. By March 2020, Maya-2 was already in its final stage of development and by September of the same year, the satellite was already turned over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.