Newsletter: Filipino students’ experiment performed by NASA astronaut in space

[THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE]

JAXA Kibo Utilization Center Director Dr. Masaki Shirakawa (left-most) and JAXA astronaut Norishige Kannai (second-to-the-right) present Team Double Gyroscope with their certificates as ATZG2025 finalists. Photo courtesy of JAXA/NASA.  

The Double Gyroscope experiment designed by Filipino students from the Rizal Technological University (RTU), was successfully conducted onboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the 2025 Asian Try Zero-G (ATZG 2025) competition. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Christopher Williams performed their experiment inside the Kibo module of the ISS last 24 March 2026.

Newsletter: Filipinos developed solutions at home together with NASA

11/03/2020 04:46:01 AM

Author's Note: Last month, a pool of Filipino talents in various fields gathered to develop solutions in such a remote manner during NASA's International Space Apps Challenge. The US-based space agency has collaborated with their colleagues from other countries to stage the virtual hackathon with the objective of developing more answers to today's challenges that emerge around the world, with most emphasis on this year's plagued by Corona Virus pandemic (COVID-19).

Read more of what our fellow countrymen contributed to the success of this competition in the press release below.

All systems go for the NASA Open Space Challenge this October!

09/13/2020 12:46:06 PM

By the start of next month, The United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invites coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists to come together in a global, virtual hackathon. 

Newsletter: Pinoy app addressing pandemic impact won the Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge

08/23/2020 01:44:48 AM

Author's Note: As cliche as it sounds, Pinoy Pride has made it again, but in the mobile and pandemic-ish way – and I mean it in good context, huh? 

Look. There's a group of our data analysts from CirroLytix who made it big to the COVID-19 themed Space App Challenge organized by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). This makes up for being one of two Filipino groups who made it as global finalists.

Know more of them by reading the press release below.

PH dengue case predictor mapping system wins NASA global hackathon '19

04/19/2020 02:02:34 PM

A dengue case forecasting system using space data made by Filipino developers won the 2019 National Aeronautics and Space Administration's International Space Apps Challenge.