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The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is the national space agency of the Philippines.. The unified space agency is defined by the Philippine Space Act (Republic Act No. 11363) which was signed into law on August 8, 2019, by President Rodrigo Duterte, [4] intended to manage and operate the decentralized space program of the Philippine government, which was handled by various agencies of the ...
The Philippine Space Agency was established when the "Philippine Space Act" (Republic Act 11363) was signed into law by Pres. Duterte on 8 August 2019. [35] [36] The first head of Philippine Space Agency, Joel Marciano Jr. was appointed on December 5, 2019, by President Duterte.
Marciano is the second of four siblings born to Joel Jacob Marciano and Elizabeth Sacro. [4] His father was an electronics engineer (Mapua University EE Batch 1968) and entrepreneur from Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro who was a former National President of the Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers of the Philippines and who founded the telecommunications company ...
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) announced on June 9, 2021, that a satellite is in development that would be bigger than the ones made previously under the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite (PHL-Microsat) program. The satellite is named Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA). [4]
English: Republic Act No. 11363 (An Act Establishing the Philippine Space Development and Utilization Policy and Creating the Philippine Space Agency, and for Other Purposes) PDF file on the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines website, signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on August 8, 2019
The first Philippine satellite launched to space was Agila-2 which was placed to orbit in 1997. The Philippine Space Agency is the lead government organization of the Philippine space program since 2019 but all active satellites are built and operated by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its child agencies.
Two satellites are commissioned for the Philippine government. [1] [2] Diwata-1 is the first satellite of the venture and is also a part of the Department of Science and Technology's Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Micro-Satellite (PHL-Microsat) Program [3] which was initiated in December 2014 by the government agency. [4]
It is meant to provide internet connection to remote areas in the country, as well as select Philippine government agencies and infrastructure such as airports, hospitals, and police stations. [ 7 ] The first Agila satellite successfully launched from the United States on December 29, 2024 after suffering a launch abort on December 21.