Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment
The Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA) is a planned Filipino satellite. Upon completion it will become the largest Filipino-made satellite. Development The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSa) announced on June 9, 2021, that a satellite is in development that would be bigger than the ones made previously under the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite (PHL-Microsat) program. The satellite is named Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA). MULA would be the first of a "next-generation satellites" under the Philippine space program, with the team behind the satellite building on the knowledge gained in developing the Diwata and Maya nanosatellites. The investment cost for the satellite is at least US$34 million. The satellite project is led by John Leur Labrador and is part of the Advanced Satellite and Know-how Transfer for the Philippines (ASP) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The University of the Philippines Diliman and DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute, in coordination of PhilSa, are the lead entities responsible for MULA's development. It is also co-designed with British firm Surrey Satellite Technology. Filipino engineers who worked on MULA were sent to the United Kingdom for an immersion on satellite design and manufacturing process. The preliminary mission objectives of