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JAXA/NASA photo (grabbed from Philippine Space Agency's Facebook page) MANILA - The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Wednesday said it is set to launch a project that will allow local government units (LGUs) and other sectors to use satellite data to better carry out their duties. Now on its pre-implementation stage, the PINAS (PhilSA Integrated Network for Space-Enabled Actions towards Sustainability) project will produce an "active community" of government agencies, LGUs, research institutions, and members of the private sector and civil society. PINAS will capacitate these sectors on the use of space data or the data and information coming from satellites. Network building, capacity building and buildup expansion will be the three phases of this project. PhilSA has already started with the first phase in the Iloilo, since a ground receiving station (GRS) is located in the municipality of Dumangas. Last June 17, PhilSA held a workshop in Iloilo for the aforementioned