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DIWATA-2B
Philippine Earth Observation Satellite · DOST-ASTI / PhilSA (Philippines)
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Diwata-2B, the Philippines' second microsatellite, built by Filipino engineers trained through a partnership with Hokkaido and Tohoku universities in Japan, providing Earth observation imagery for disaster monitoring across the Philippine archipelago's over 7,600 islands.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 348–359 mi (560–577 km)
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- One orbit
- 95.9 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 43678
- Int’l designator
- 2018-084H
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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