Project Santa Barbara was a missile program developed under the administration of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos (1965–86) during the Cold War.

[2] Under the program, different types of missiles were developed which are intended to intercept land, sea, and air-based threats.

[2] One of the missiles developed was the Bongbong rocket, named after the moniker of President Marcos' son Ferdinand Jr.[2] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States described the weapon as the Philippines' first liquid-propellant rocket.

[3] The associated weaponry system of the Bongbong rocket is similar to the Soviet unguided artillery Katyusha.

The launch was made on March 12, 1972 with the rocket retrieved from the South China Sea.