W-08 International Cooperation of Education for Young Engineers and Scientists by the Development and Flight Operations for Philippine DIWATA Microsatellites

Abstract

This paper shows the outline of Philippines' first microsatellite project. The project PHL-MICROSAT started in 2015 and finally launched total 2 satellites, DIWATA-1 and DIWATA-2, in this 4 years. They are now being operated by satellite ground station in Metro Manila, and they have demonstrated the feasible performance for various monitoring applications such as urban area, vegetation, flood, active volcano, etc. The joint team is consist of 4 organizations and universities from Philippines and Japan. Tohoku University is in charge of education for young engineers in satellite bus system development and flight operations as well as two satellite assembly and tests. In this 4 year activities, this international collaborative project has achieved the remarkable success in the education of young professional engineers not only for students stayed in Japan but also for every participants in Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Philippines, and University of the Philippines Diliman.