3 Filipino engineers behind Philippines' second cube satellite maya-2 has been launched to space station The Maya-2 CubeSat, developed by three Filipino engineers, was officially launched at the International Space Station on Sunday afternoon, along with satellites from Japan and Paraguay, as part of the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite Project (BIRDS-4). Behind the successful launch is a team composed of three Filipinos, all of them pursuing doctorates in Space Systems Engineering and Space Engineering at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) in Kitakyushu, Japan. Izrael Zenar Bautista Bautista is responsible for the monitoring of the team's activities from planning, design, execution, implementation, and operation of the satellite. His responsibilities also include the testing of the feasibility of the Perovskite solar cell mission in space.