by Nuno Gomes | Jan 2, 2024 | News
Entries for the Zero-G Portugal – Astronauta por um Dia initiative closed on 13 March with 552 applications, a figure that represents a 20% increase on the entries received for the 2022 edition. The Portuguese Space Agency, which promotes and organises the...
by Nuno Gomes | Jan 2, 2024 | News
The Zero-G Portugal – Astronauta por um Dia initiative is returning to Beja and bringing astronaut Matthias Maurer to the Alentejo city. After spending 175 days on the International Space Station, the German astronaut returns to Beja to fly (and talk) with the...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Dec 5, 2023 | Events, News
The Portuguese Space Agency and the Directorate-General for Territory (DGT) are organising the event “Copernicus for the Portuguese Forestry and Agriculture sectors”, on December 18 and 19 as part of the activities funded by the Framework Partnership Agreement on...
by Nuno Gomes | Nov 16, 2023 | News
What do a geophysicist and a teenage student have in common? A passion for space and the possibilities that exist beyond the limits of Earth. Bridging generations through Space was the theme for the Portuguese Space Agency’s session at this year’s Web...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 18, 2023 | News
Aerospace Team Graz, a team of university students from Austria, was the big winner of the 4th edition of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), a European university rocket launch competition organised by the Portuguese Space Agency, which took place in Constância...
by Nuno Gomes | Sep 27, 2023 | News
Thirty years after the launch of PoSAT-1, the first (and so far only) Portuguese satellite to be launched into space, Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues received the Medal of Scientific Merit. The head of the PoSAT-1 consortium received the award last Monday from the...
