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...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Jul 28, 2026 | Events, News
The surrounding ocean, the low density of air traffic and the island’s position beneath the routes flown by vehicles returning from orbit make Santa Maria one of the places in the Atlantic where a spacecraft can return from space with the greatest assurance of...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Jul 9, 2026 | News
After Portugal licensed its first launch centre in August 2025, following a technical assessment conducted by the Portuguese Space Agency, the country is set to put that experience to work for Europe. The Agency joins the Alliance for European Autonomous Access to...
