Newsletter: PhilSA strengthens space ecosystem, enhances space data capabilities of businesses through innovation camp

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The Space Business Innovation Camp 2026 panel discussion during the Philippine Space Week in August brought together experts from the government, industry, and startup sectors to explore opportunities for using space data to address real-world challenges and create new business ventures.

The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is expanding its efforts to develop the country’s space economy by helping businesses build capabilities to use satellite-derived data, develop space-enabled solutions, and explore opportunities.

Newsletter: Philippines and Japan sign joint declaration to continue decades of space cooperation

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The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a Joint Declaration of Interest in Space Cooperation on 27 May 2026, reaffirming their shared goals and objectives, and their interest in exploring cooperation and industry partnerships in Satellite Joint Mission Partnership and Data Applications, Space Exploration and Human Spaceflight, and Space Sustainability. The declaration was signed by PhilSA Ad Interim Director General Gay Jane P. Perez and JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa during President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s state visit to Japan.

Newsletter: Here’s How UP Physicists are Helping with the Hunt for Gravitational Waves

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By Harvey Sapigao

A black hole inside an accretion disk. (Photo credit: BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash)

In 1916, Albert Einstein theorized that two merging black holes create ripples in the spacetime fabric, similar to how a pebble creates ripples in a pond. These ripples, called gravitational waves, stretch and squeeze spacetime in amounts so minuscule that they were once believed to be too faint to detect.

Two PH teams in GiveSIGHT and World MAQI are finalists in global space data competition for COVID-19

07/31/2021 03:30:48 PM

Our two teams had been recently selected by the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as global finalists for the all-virtual Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon held last this past June. 

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.