Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (Photo: AFP/VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - President RodrigoDuterte has signed a law to create the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).
Duterte stressed the country needs acoherent and unified strategy for space development and utilisation to keep upwith other nations in space science and technology.
Under the law, the PhilSA will be thecentral government agency that addresses all national issues and activitiesrelated to space science and technology.
The agency will also be the primary policy,planning, coordination, implementation and administrative entity to develop andpromote the national space programme in line with the Philippine Space Policy.
The Philippine Space Policy, alsoestablished under the new law, will serve as the country’s primary strategicroadmap to become a space-capable and space-faring nation within the nextdecade.
The country's space programme will focus onthe development of space technologies for national security, hazard managementand climate studies, space research and development, space industry capacitybuilding, space education and awareness, and international cooperation.
The law also creates the Philippine SpaceCouncil (PSC), which will be headed by the president.-VNA
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