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This is another milestone for Philippine space exploration and technology as we are now making our own space equipment for research and development. Diwata-2 was developed by 11 scholars under the Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in cooperation with the Tohoku University and Hokkaido University in contrast to 9 DOST scholars who worked with Diwata-1, Diwata-2's predecessor.