by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 21, 2026 | News
The Aerospace Team Graz (ASTG) rocket achieved the best flight in the liquid propulsion category, reaching 9,000 metres and using the same technology as launchers that put satellites into orbit. That flight helped secure the Austrian team the EuRoC Award, the...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 15, 2026 | News
The European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), organised by the Portuguese Space Agency, returned to Constância today, 15 October, bringing together around 700 students from universities in 13 countries. Twenty university teams have arrived in Portugal to launch the rockets...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 14, 2026 | News
Muscles weaken, bones lose mass and the body forgets gravity. Matthias Maurer went through all of this during 177 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and, when he returned, admitted that readjusting to Earth was harder than learning to live in...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 13, 2026 | News
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Portuguese Space Agency have signed a bilateral agreement under which ESA will, in addition to the in-kind support provided in previous editions, now expand its support to the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), the university...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Sep 22, 2026 | News
European agriculture faces a twofold demand: to produce more while weighing less on the environment, in an increasingly unpredictable climate. At the same time, there has never been so much data to help farmers, from satellite imagery and other EO data to...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Sep 20, 2026 | News
Created by the Portuguese Space Agency in 2022, the programme “Astronauta por um Dia” (Astronaut for a Day) is now in its fifth edition and has been adapted in five European countries, one of which boarded the aircraft alongside the Portuguese finalists this year....
