Name

MAYA-6

Alternate Names

DX6MYA

Satellite ID

BSOI-4945-7290-6798-4904

NORAD ID

57419

Website

https://stamina4space.upd.edu.ph/maya-5-and-maya-6/

Country of Origin

Philippines

Deploy Date

2023-07-19T06:40:00+00:00

Decay Date

2023-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

Maya-6 (along with Maya-5) is the Philippines second set of nanosatellites developed in-country, with an aim to slowly transition to completely developing the nanosatellites locally. It is a 1U Cubesat developed under the STEP-UP Project with the following missions: 1. APRS digipeater 2. Store-and-Forward 3. Hentenna mission 4. Camera mission 5. On-board Image classification 1. The primary mission of Maya-5 and Maya-6 CubeSats is to provide digital message relay service to the amateur radio community by means of an APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) digipeater onboard. Another mission of Maya-5 is to demonstrate a data/message store-and-forward (S&F) system in line with the Universal Amateur Radio Text and E-mail messaging.