by Nuno Gomes | Aug 3, 2022 | News
The Sentinel-1B satellite has been officially deemed inoperable and its mission terminated. The announcement, made this Wednesday by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), comes after several attempts to resolve an anomaly detected in the...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 22, 2022 | Call
After the success of the first and second calls, to which companies from nine European countries submitted proposals, the Portuguese Space Agency – Portugal Space together with the AIR Centre is opening the third out of four calls to promote the internationalization...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 14, 2022 | Opinion
It’s Wednesday, 13th July, 6 o’clock in the morning, and it’s pouring rain in Kourou. I arrived in French Guiana on Monday evening to bear eye-witness to the launch of the ESA’s new medium-lift Vega-C rocket. This is the rocket that will in the future also...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 12, 2022 | News
This is “an exciting moment for science and humanity”: we are finally getting to know the first images captured by the James Webb space telescope, launched on December 25th, 2021. The first image captured by the space telescope has already been released...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 8, 2022 | News
“What I want most in the world is for schools to have no walls and for teachers to stop teaching.” Rosa Doran is not afraid of words or the controversy they may cause. The only thing that the coordinator of NUCLIO – Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia e...
