Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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]
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
United States-based Astranis Space Technologies and Philippines-based Orbits Corporation announced in November 2023 a partnership to launch at least two MicroGEO satellites named Agila to exclusively serve the Philippine market. [3] [4] [5] The collaboration is valued US$400 million. [6]
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 ...
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]
The Philippine Earth Data Resource and Observation Center, also known as the PEDRO Center is an organization tasked in operating satellite ground stations.. It is part of the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Micro-satellite (Phil-Microsat) program by the Department of Science and Technology, which includes the deployment of the Diwata-1 and Diwata-2 microsatellites. [1]