Northern Luzon, particularly the province of Cagayan, is being explored as a potential rocket launch site as the Philippines moves to develop capabilities in the space sector through partnerships with international aerospace firms.
Under the partnership, space-derived information will be used to assess disaster impacts, evaluate environmental threats, and analyze their potential effects on inflation, financial stability, and economic resilience.
Pres. Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed Dr. Gay Jane P. Perez as director general of the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA), making her the agency’s second chief after its founding head, Joel Joseph Marciano Jr.
Under the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), PhilSA will supply DPWH with satellite imagery and space-based analytics to track and assess the progress of construction projects nationwide.
The Philippines has officially joined the ranks of nations committed to the peaceful and transparent exploration of outer space after signing the Artemis Accords, a landmark international agreement outlining principles for responsible space activity.
Dr. Gay Jane P. Perez, a physicist and researcher with extensive experience in satellite data applications, earned her doctorate in Physics from the University of the Philippines Diliman and later conducted postdoctoral research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Senators raised concerns over the Philippine Space Agency’s (PhilSA) spending efficiency, budget priorities, and leadership stability during Senate deliberations on the 2026 budget of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its attached agencies.
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) announced that Team Inflection Point of the Batangas State University (BatStateU) has won second place in the 5th Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Kibo-RPC).
The project will be the first Copernicus Earth observation data storing and processing facility in Asia and is part of the National Copernicus Capacity Support Action Program for the Philippines (CopPhil).
