First Philippine satellite reaches space station

The US commercial spacecraft Cygnus carrying the Philippines’ first microsatellite Diwata-1 has successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) and is now being unloaded of its 7,500-pound payload. Carlos Primo David, executive director of the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD), said the unloading of the cargo of the Cygnus, which includes Diwata-1, would take two weeks. David said they would ask the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for footage of the unloading. He said the deployment into orbit of Diwata-1 was scheduled on April 20 or 21. More

(Source: Philippine Star - Mar 28)