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The space program includes space research and development, and is funded through the National SPACE Development Program (NSDP) by the DOST and received an initial budget of ₱1 billion in 2020. The Philippines attempted to establish a formal space program in the 1960s, during the term of President Ferdinand Marcos.
While investment has gradually grown until today, the government has never invested money in space exploration in the same way it did during the space race.
- The Cost of Space Flight Before and After SpaceX
- The Space Race
- Space Tourism
- The Future of Space Flight
On December 21, 2021, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a cargo capsule to deliver supplies and Christmas gifts to astronauts in the International Space Station. Just eight minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing on one of SpaceX’s drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean. This marked the company’s 100th successful landi...
The 20th-century was marked by competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. The space race led to great technological advances, but these innovations came at a high cost. For instance, during the 1960s NASA spent $28 billion to land astronauts on the moon, a...
Although competition has brought prices down for cargo flights, human space transportation is still pricey. During the last 60 years, roughly 600 people have flown into space, and the vast majority of them have been government astronauts. For a suborbital trip on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Origin’s New Shepard, seats typically cost $25...
In a SpaceX press briefing, SpaceX Director Benji Reed said, “We want to make life multi-planetary, and that means putting millions of people in space.” This may still seem like a stretch for most people. But, given the decreasing cost of space flights over the last two decades, perhaps the sky won’tbe the limit in the near future.
Feb 20, 2024 · How much money does space-faring firm SpaceX save when it reuses a Falcon 9 booster? This week, CEO Elon Musk divulged some details about the economics of saving rockets, revealing why...
Feb 25, 2021 · The Philippines may be a “latecomer” in space technology development program, but it has proven its worth and has marked its own place in space. Last Sunday, Feb. 21, at 1:36 a.m. (local time), Maya-2, the country’s fourth satellite and second nanosatellite, was launched into space aboard the S.S. Katherine Johnson Cygnus spacecraft.
Jan 27, 2022 · The Space Race. The 20th-century was marked by competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. The space race led to great technological advances, but these innovations came at a high cost.
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May 20, 2023 · The simple and humble goal is to create better awareness of local SSTA capabilities and the benefits that they bring to Filipinos. In coming up with the compilation, we considered the segmentation of the space economy into two complementary sectors: the upstream and the downstream.
