List of Philippine satellites

This list covers satellites built and/or operated by entities in the Philippines – by private firms based in the Philippines or by the Philippine government. The first Philippine satellites were operated by private companies. The first Filipino-owned satellite is Agila-1, a satellite acquired in 1996 by Mabuhay Satellite Corporation from PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, an Indonesian company. The first Philippine satellite launched to space was Agila-2 which was placed to orbit in 1997.
The Philippine Space Agency is the lead government organization of the Philippine space program since 2019 but all active satellites are built and operated by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its child agencies. The DOST was behind Diwata-1 which was launched to space in 2016 and was the first satellite built and designed by Filipinos and Maya-1 was the first nano-satellite owned by the Philippines and was launched in 2018. Additional Maya satellites were developed and launched in cooperation with JAXA under the Birds program (official name: Joint Global Multi Nation Birds) with the Kyushu Institute of Technology.[1]
The Philippines presently does not have orbital launch capability, and has historically relied on other nations' space programs to launch their satellites into orbit.
List
[edit | edit source]| Designation | Class | Launch | Deployment | Mission Status | Summary | ||||
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| Date | Site | Vehicle | Date | Site | Vehicle | ||||
| Agila-1 | Satellite | March 20, 1987 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Cape Canaveral SLC-17 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Delta-3920 PAM-D | March 20, 1987 | GEO | N/A | Decommissioned in January 1998 | Privately owned (Mabuhay). First Philippine satellite through acquisition while in orbit. Formerly named Palapa B2-P (Indonesia). |
| Agila-2 | Satellite | August 19, 1997 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xichang 2 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Chang Zheng 3B | August 19, 1997 | GEO | N/A | Decommissioned August 2017: Sold to Asia Broadcast Satellite (renamed into ABS-3) | Privately owned (Mabuhay). First Philippine Satellite launched into space. |
| Agila | Satellite | December 29, 2024 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Cape Canaveral SLC-40 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Falcon 9 Block 5 | December 29, 2024 | GEO | N/A | Active | Privately owned (Orbits Corp). Built by Astranis, repurposed satellite originally assigned as Andesat-1.[1] |
| Diwata-1 | Micro | March 23, 2016 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Cape Canaveral SLC-41 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Atlas V 401 | April 27, 2016 | ISS | Decommissioned on April 6, 2020[2] | First microsatellite of the Philippines. | |
| Maya-1 | Cubesat | June 29, 2018 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Cape Canaveral SLC-40 | File:Flag of the United States.svg SpaceX CRS-15 | August 10, 2018 | ISS | Completed on November 23, 2020[3] | First nanosatellite of the Philippines. | |
| Diwata-2 | Micro | October 29, 2018 | October 29, 2018 | LEO | N/A | Active | Replacement of Diwata-1. | ||
| Maya-2 | Cubesat | February 20, 2021 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport | File:Flag of the United States.svg Antares 230+ | February 21, 2021[4] | ISS | File:Flag of the United States.svg Cygnus NG-15 | Deorbited on July 5, 2022 | Replacement of Maya-1. |
| Maya-3[5] | Cubesat | August 29, 2021 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A | File:Flag of the United States.svg SpaceX CRS-23 | October 6, 2021[6] | ISS | Deorbited on July 25, 2022 | Same bus design as Maya-1. Deployed simultaneously with Maya-4 as the country's first university-built satellites. | |
| Maya-4[5] | Cubesat | August 29, 2021 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A | File:Flag of the United States.svg SpaceX CRS-23 | October 6, 2021[6] | ISS | Deorbited on July 27, 2022 | Same bus design as Maya-1. Deployed simultaneously with Maya-3 as the country's first university-built satellites. | |
| Maya-5[7] | Cubesat | June 5, 2023 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A | File:Flag of the United States.svg SpaceX CRS-28 | July 19, 2023 | ISS | Deorbited on December 8, 2023 | Same bus design as Maya-1. Deployed simultaneously with Maya-6 as the country's second university-built satellites.[8] | |
| Maya-6[7] | Cubesat | June 5, 2023 | File:Flag of the United States.svg Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A | File:Flag of the United States.svg SpaceX CRS-28 | July 19, 2023 | ISS | Deorbited on December 12, 2023 | Same bus design as Maya-1. Deployed simultaneously with Maya-5 as the country's second university-built satellites.[8] | |
| MULA | Satellite | March 2026 (planned) | File:Flag of the United States.svg Vandenberg Space Force Base, SLC-4E | File:Flag of the United States.svg Falcon 9 Block 5 | March 2026 (planned) | LEO | N/A | Planned | |
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