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By this time since 2010, the science department has already spent ₱7.48 billion (or $144 million) for space research and development, aided 5,500 scholars, trained more than 1,000 space science experts, and established 25 facilities in various parts of the Philippines. The Philippine Space Agency was established when the "Philippine Space Act ...
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 ...
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Tourists are motivated by the possibility of viewing Earth from space, feeling weightlessness, experiencing extremely high speed and something unusual, and contributing to science.
Space Shuttle (roller coaster) / 14.281947; 121.095394. The Space Shuttle is a steel roller coaster situated at Enchanted Kingdom in Santa Rosa, Laguna in the Philippines. [1] It is a Vekoma Boomerang coaster. It has a single train with seven cars, with 2 rows per car and 2 seats per row. The train is capable of carrying a maximum of 28 passengers.
The Banaue Rice Terraces ( Filipino: Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banawe) are terraces that were carved into the mountains of Banaue, Ifugao, in the Philippines, by the ancestors of the Igorot people. The terraces are occasionally called the "Eighth Wonder of the World". [1] [2] [3] It is commonly thought that the terraces were built with minimal ...
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, [17] which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao .
Scientific career. Fields. Astrophysics. Institutions. University of the Philippines Los Baños. Department of Science and Technology. Ateneo de Davao University. Regulus SpaceTech Inc. Rogel Mari D. Sese is a Filipino astrophysicist who is known for being a proponent of space science in the Philippines.
Established. September 2015. ( 2015-09) The National Space Promotion, Awareness, and Capabilities Enhancement (SPACE) Development Program, simply known as the National SPACE Development Program (NSDP) is a government program of the Philippines set up to craft a policy for the country's space program and lay the foundation of a future dedicated ...