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How Diwata-1 launched the Philippine space age

· By The Manila Times
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The history of Philippine space development is now routinely framed around a single inflection point: April 27, 2016. At 8:44 p.m. Philippine time, a compact, 50-kilogram microsatellite no larger than a balikbayan box was released into orbit from the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station. That sate…

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