by Hermínia Saraiva | Sep 20, 2026 | News
Created by the Portuguese Space Agency in 2022, the programme “Astronauta por um Dia” (Astronaut for a Day) is now in its fifth edition and has been adapted in five European countries, one of which boarded the aircraft alongside the Portuguese finalists this year....
by Hermínia Saraiva | Aug 13, 2026 | News
In 2026, the final stage of Astronaut for a Day will take two countries into the skies. On 20 September, Portuguese and Estonian students will share a parabolic flight departing from the island of Santa Maria, in the Azores. This marks the first edition of the...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Aug 7, 2026 | News
For decades, medicine has asked the same questions about the human body: how it ages, how it defends itself, how it withstands radiation, when its blood turns dangerous. Space asks the same questions, amplifying them to a whole new level. Weightlessness ages the body...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Aug 3, 2026 | Call, News
A power grid operator can tell from space that a tree is growing too close to a high-voltage line and have it cut back before a branch causes a power cut. The same vegetation can creep onto a railway line and block the driver’s view. Different scenarios, one...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Jul 29, 2026 | News
Producing oxygen from carbon dioxide on Mars, culturing fish cells in microgravity, and measuring the risk of thrombosis and stress from a fingertip. These are three of the five projects that RPROSSE (PROdex for Science in Space Exploration), the Portuguese Space...
