President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law to create the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).
Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Duterte
stressed the country needs a coherent and unified strategy for space
development and utilisation to keep up with other nations in space science and
technology.
Under the law, the PhilSA will be the central government agency that addresses
all national issues and activities related to space science and technology.
The agency will also be the primary policy, planning, coordination,
implementation and administrative entity to develop and promote the national
space programme in line with the Philippine Space Policy.
The Philippine Space Policy, also established under the new law, will serve as
the country’s primary strategic roadmap to become a space-capable and
space-faring nation within the next decade.
The country's space programme will focus on the development of space
technologies for national security, hazard management and climate studies, space
research and development, space industry capacity building, space education and
awareness, and international cooperation.
The law also creates the Philippine Space Council (PSC), which will be headed
by the president.
Source: VNA
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