For the first time, a Filipino has been elected as president of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Technical Commission on Education and Outreach through Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) Deputy Director General for Space Science and Technology Dr. Gay Jane P....
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) has launched the Space Infrastructure, Know-How, and Applications Acceleration through Promotion and Training project (SIKAP+) which seeks to enhance scientific cooperation in Asia. Photo courtesy of PhilSA In a statement, PhilSA stated that it specifically...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover -- a process called "greening" that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday. The research, published in Science, was based on 38 years of satellite...
Photo by Mike Petrucci from Unsplash. Who would have thought that growing plants in the soil of the moon was actually possible? Scientists from the University of Florida accomplished this by growing thale cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) on lunar soil collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin...
Photo by Chiring Chandan from Wikimedia Commons. Space habitats of the future need to come up with ways to sustain their food supply without depending on resupply missions from Earth. This is why Jane Shevtsov, administrator of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), partnered...
To help people cope with post-election stress, a group of Twitter users have been hosting a Twitter space, where several government officials are being impersonated. The Twitter space #MahalAngMagmahal went trending worldwide on Thursday night after Vice President Leni Robredo's impersonator, "VP...
To expand its coverage in unserved and remote rural areas, Globe Telecom Inc. is collaborating with AST SpaceMobile Inc., builder of the world's first space-based cellular broadband network. Now, AST SpaceMobile aims to provide the Philippines' first satellite broadband service directly to standard...
JIUQUAN -- China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Thursday. The satellite, Gaofen-3 03, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:47 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. The launch marks the...
To raise awareness of sexual harassment and guarantee a safe space for its employees, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has conducted an orientation on the Safe Spaces Act of 2019 or Republic Act (RA) 11313 for its executives nationwide. In a statement, DENR Acting...
In hopes of strengthening the local upstream space sector, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) launched the Integrated Development of a Unified Standard 3U System (InDUS3US). InDUS3US, according to PhilSA, is a project that offers an opportunity to industries and industry engineers to gain...
To establish scholarships and training programs for space science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and the Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF), also called Fulbright Philippines, collaborated and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
The question of whether or not to start gardening in a cramped space is familiar among city dwellers. However, space does not necessarily have to restrict one from growing things or pursuing urban farming. There are a plethora of vegetables and fruits that you can choose from or begin with...
