by Hermínia Saraiva | Dec 1, 2020 | News
About a year after the approval of the ADRIOS (Active Debris Removal and In-Orbit Servicing) programme, the European Space Agency (ESA) has signed, on December 1st 2020, an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by ClearSpace. An agreement that will allow...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 30, 2020 | Call
(The deadline has been extended from 29th January to February 28th, 2021.) This Monday, Portugal Space launches the first competition in its program to award grants for doctoral study, promoted with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 21, 2020 | Opinion
Radar altimeters provide information about different characteristics of the oceans’ surface, and this information can be used to understand particular phenomena and processes taking place much deeper down: the surface and the depths are connected. In recent years...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 5, 2020 | News
Space can be the world’s highest and most exceptional laboratory. With this idea in mind, and in the week when the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station, Portugal Space is putting in place a seminar dedicated to Microgravity Business...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 3, 2020 | News
The AI Moonshot Challenge, which seeks disruptive ideas for plastic detection in the oceans, has attracted researchers from several countries, including the United Kingdom, Serbia, Estonia, Finland, Brazil, Canada and the United States, among others. In total, 38...