UP student’s experiment to be performed on ISS

MANILA, Philippines — An entry of a student from the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna was among the six experiments chosen to be performed in the International Space Station (ISS), the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) announced yesterday.

The experiment, dubbed “rotation of dumbbell-shaped objects in space,” was submitted by William Kevin Abran.

He was among the 24 international finalists of the Asian Try Zero-G 2022 (ATZG) competition, according to PhilSA.

The ATZG is an international cooperation experiment launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which targets the youth in the Asia-Pacific region to expand the use of the ISS and the Japanese experiment module “Kibo” as well as contribute to sustainable development goals.

Eight countries were called for the ATZG 2022, where a total of 201 submissions were received from 480 students, engineers and researchers.