The Philippines marked on April 27 a decade since the deployment of Diwata-1, the country’s first locally built satellite, with officials pointing to expanded use of space-based data in disaster response and environmental monitoring.
Bagong Henerasyon party-list representative Bernadette Herrera might be unaware, however, that DOST has already been using Filipino-owned microsatellites to capture high-resolution photos of the country’s territorial waters.
