by Nuno Gomes | Jul 5, 2022 | News
In the last academic year, the Aerospace Engineering course of Instituto Superior Técnico stood out once again from the remaining educational offer of Portuguese higher education: the last-placed student set the entry average at 19.05 values. Further north, and also...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 5, 2022 | News
The silver launch rail looks tiny from afar. Pointed towards the Alentejo sky, it holds more than the colourful rocket that will take off: it is also where the dreams of the participants of the European Rocketry Challenge – EuRoC are concentrated, a rocket...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 25, 2022 | Events, News
The Portuguese Space Agency – Portugal Space, the Instituto Superior Técnico and the Oeiras Municipality welcome this Monday the participants of the 2022 edition of the Space Studies Program (SSP22), promoted by the International Space University (ISU). In...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
Once we realize that we currently have millions of space debris objects ranging from 1 milimeter to full rocket bodies and defunct satellites orbiting our planet, from which only a bit more than 31.000 are tracked by surveillance networks, we understand we have a...
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 | 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...
