Sen. Loren Legarda proposed the creation of the Philippine Space Agency, which will address the country's issues related to space science and technology applications. The senator filed Senate Bill 1259 or "An act establishing a Philippine Space Development Policy and creating the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA), […] It must be considered that the Philippines is lagging behind its neighbouring countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore, each having Space Agencies with satellites devoted on telecommunications or earth monitoring - Manila Star, 3rd January 2017 A big welcome from the Team at InnovaSpace to this our first Space Blog. We are a new Space Consultancy bringing a huge wealth of experience through our team members and Board of Advisors, all of whom have long and notable careers within their fields. Space is a subject that has personally inspired many of them, together with generations of people all over the world who have looked up to the stars with curiosity. The distance between Space Science, Space Discovery and society at large has progressively narrowed since the late 1950s and 60s - a period in which Russia launched Sputnik 1, NASA developed Project Mercury, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, Alan Shephard Jr the second, and Valentina Tereshkova the first woman. Today, Space is no longer in the hands of the few: now Space occupies the mind of almost every national government, aware of the need for greater inclusion, participation, knowledge transfer and professionalization in this universal project. We no longer speak of simply the Moon as we once did, but of Mars and humanity's eventual off-world migration - as there were Neil Armstrong's first steps, so too will there be humanity's fledgling movements on Mars, facilitated by the maturity and sophistication of mechanics, engineering, physiology and astrophysics. Human spaceflight has, furthermore, become no longer the province of one nation, but the intention of many: China has been added to the list of nations to send a manned spaceflight into orbit, with the launch in 2003 of taikonaut Yang Liwei on board the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. There are now three nations with human spaceflight and lunar soft-landing capability: the USA (NASA), Russia (Roscosmos) and China (CNSA). However, it should not stop here: with Space on the developmental agenda for many emerged and emerging nations, participation and opportunity will define Space not only as a critical research area for the advancement of the sciences, but as a platform for national progress, social development and regional leadership. At the governmental level, many new space agencies have been formed, some with launch capabilities, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The globe is in fact home to a total of 65 space agencies, as seen in the maps below, and these vary in budget, size, operational capability and potential, the majority of which are concentrated in Europe. |
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