The country’s first cube satellite (CubeSat) , Maya-1, is one of the three CubeSats under the 2nd Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Project or BIRDS-2 Project of the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) in Japan.

One of the missions of the 1-unit (1U) CubeSat is the Store-and-Forward (S&F) System. It will collect data from ground sensor terminals within its footprint, save it, and forward the data to any member ground station.

The 10 cubic centimeter CubeSat also contains an Automatic Packet Radio Service Digipeater, which can communicate with ham radios. Maya-1 will also carry two cameras -- a wide-angle and a narrow-angle lens -- to capture images and minimum resolution videos for research purposes.

Inside Maya-1 is a low-cost Global Positioning System (GPS) commercial off-the-shelf chip, as well as a magnetometer -- a device used to measure the magnetic field in space. Maya-1 can also log data corruption incidents due to space radiation through the Single Event Latch-Up mission.