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MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment)

MULA is a planned Philippine multispectral Earth-observation smallsat for land assessment, disaster management, agriculture, forestry, maritime tracking, and aircraft-tracking applications.^[1] The mission carries the MULA TrueColour Camera, an AIS receiver, and an ADS-B receiver on a 130 kg spacecraft in sun-synchronous low Earth orbit.^[1] Its optical camera is specified for 5 m ground sampling, a 120 km swath, and nine spectral bands from 433 nm to 907 nm.^[2]

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current status	Planned
operator	Philippine Space Agency
platform	SSTL X-50 bus
launch vehicle	SpaceX Transporter Smallsat Rideshare Programme
Planned launch	2027-04-01
orbit type	Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit
swath km	120
tasking supported	No
current geographic priority	Philippines land, agriculture, forestry, disaster-management, maritime, and aircraft-tracking applications

Supply chain position

built on platform SSTL X-50 bus

operated by Philippine Space Agency

launched on SpaceX Transporter Smallsat Rideshare Programme

related to Land cover change

related to Crop-type mapping

related to Crop stress and yield

related to Deforestation

related to Disaster damage assessment

related to Vessel tracking

Sources

[1]MULA mission page, STAMINA4Space / PhilSAoperator engineering2026-06-21
[2]MULA Satellite Infographics, Philippine Space Agencyagency doc2026-06-21
[3]Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment, Wikipediacommunity2026-06-21

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MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment). EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/missions/mula (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:mula,
  title = {MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment)},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/mula}
}