Singapore will launch its first national space agency in April to provide “decisive leadership” for the Southeast Asian country to tap an “expanding space economy,” the nation’s government announced on Feb. 2. Tan See Leng, Singapore’s Minister-in-charge of Energy and Science & Technology, noted the new National Space Agency of Singapore (NSAS) will target the “new possibilities posed by democratized access to outer space.”
The agency will be led by Ngiam Le Na, a veteran public servant who previously served as deputy CEO of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency and at DSO National Laboratories, the country’s defense R&D organization.
