by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
Since Sputnik debuted in 1957, humans have been launching satellites into orbit to perform various functions. In total, around 9.000 satellites were established in the past six decades, including Vanguard 1 – the oldest satellite still orbiting –, the Russian Mir...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | Newsletter
The European Space Agency (ESA) organizes on November 22 and 23, in Paris, the ESA Council at the Ministerial level (CMIN22), which takes place every three years, to approve the new generation of ESA programmes and the level of funding, which shall shape most of the...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | Newsletter
European space security has a new address: the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Space Safety Centre intends to lodge European missions, projects and activities for planetary protection from...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
How does one describe the unavoidable desire to invest months of work in a technology destined for the aerospace industry in a country like Portugal, which has never launched more than caravels and ships into the sea? Irrationality, perhaps? And what to make of the...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
Imagine “a highway with an uncontrolled crowd of trucks, balls and millions of bullets flying”. This is not just an exercise in creativity: it is what happens in Earth’s orbit. Operational satellites orbit among “enormous amounts of space...
