by Hermínia Saraiva | Feb 29, 2024 | News
The first phase of the 3rd edition of Astronauta por um Dia ended with 634 applications, a new competition record. Students from all over Portugal responded to the call of the Portuguese Space Agency, which has achieved the goal of total geographical representation....
by Hermínia Saraiva | Feb 6, 2024 | News
With the publication in the Official Gazette of the revision of the Space Law, through Decree-Law no. 20/2024, of 2 February, the rules for licensing space launch centres on Portuguese territory were laid down. The licence to operate a space launch centre, like the...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Dec 5, 2023 | Events, News
The Portuguese Space Agency and the Directorate-General for Territory (DGT) are organising the event “Copernicus for the Portuguese Forestry and Agriculture sectors”, on December 18 and 19 as part of the activities funded by the Framework Partnership Agreement on...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 18, 2023 | News
Aerospace Team Graz, a team of university students from Austria, was the big winner of the 4th edition of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), a European university rocket launch competition organised by the Portuguese Space Agency, which took place in Constância...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Aug 7, 2023 | Events, News
At 2.45 a.m. (Lisbon time) on 25 September 1993, flight 59 of the Ariane 4 rocket was launched from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. It represented the space ambitions of a country preparing to put a satellite into orbit for the first time. In the 30th...