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...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
We know it is going to happen because it is already happening: a new space economy generating wealth, jobs and products that benefits all humankind. Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space industry, today at 350 billion USD, will be 1 trillion USD in 2040. From...
