# MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment)
*missions*

## Specifications
- **country**: Philippines
- **operator**: philsa
- **planned launch**: 2027-04-01
- **orbit type**: Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit
- **platform**: sstl-x50
- **launch vehicle**: spacex-transporter
- **current status**: planned
- **swath km**: 120
- **tasking supported**: false
- **current geographic priority**: Philippines land, agriculture, forestry, disaster-management, maritime, and aircraft-tracking applications
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: philsa
- **attributes**: {"country":"Philippines","operator":"philsa","planned_launch":"2027-04-01","orbit_type":"Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit","platform":"sstl-x50","launch_vehicle":"spacex-transporter","current_status":"planned","swath_km":120,"tasking_supported":false,"current_geographic_priority":"Philippines land, agriculture, forestry, disaster-management, maritime, and aircraft-tracking applications"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
MULA is a planned Philippine multispectral Earth-observation smallsat for land assessment, disaster management, agriculture, forestry, maritime tracking, and aircraft-tracking applications.[^stamina-mula] 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.[^stamina-mula] Its optical camera is specified for 5 m ground sampling, a 120 km swath, and nine spectral bands from 433 nm to 907 nm.[^philsa-mula-infographic]

## Compositional position
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[mission_payloads]--> mula-truecolour-camera (products)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[mission_payloads]--> mula-ais-receiver (products)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[mission_payloads]--> mula-ads-b-receiver (products)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[mission_buses]--> sstl-x50 (products)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> land-cover-change (topics)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> crop-type (topics)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> crop-stress (topics)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> deforestation (topics)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> disaster-damage-assessment (topics)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> vessel-tracking (topics)
- MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) --[related-topic]--> aircraft-tracking (topics)

## Sources
- [stamina-mula] | MULA mission page, STAMINA4Space / PhilSA | https://stamina4space.philsa.gov.ph/mula/index.html | tier=operator-engineering | accessed=2026-06-21
- [philsa-mula-infographic] | MULA Satellite Infographics, Philippine Space Agency | https://philsa.gov.ph/news/multispectral-unit-for-land-assessment-mula-satellite-infographics/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-21
- [wiki-mula] | Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment, Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispectral_Unit_for_Land_Assessment | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-21

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