Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) In a virtual public briefing, PhilSA Director General Joel Marciano Jr. said the country’s third and fourth nanosatellites will be launched into space “later this year.” “Later this year, hopefully we look forward to deploying two more nano-satellites, Maya-3 and Maya-4, which are important in the sense that we have built them from Philippine universities,” Marciano said. “That means we are taking what we learn from Japanese universities to the scholars that have come back, and the professors and other researchers that have been trained and we are now implementing them in our local academic institutions and proliferating them to other universities and high schools as well,” he added.