by Nuno Gomes | Oct 10, 2022 | Events, News
The third edition of EuRoC – European Rocketry Challenge, a rocket launching competition for European university students, starts tomorrow. Organised by the Portuguese Space Agency, the competition takes place between the 11th and the 18th of October, in Ponte...
by Nuno Gomes | Sep 29, 2022 | Events, News
The flag of the Portuguese space sector flew high at this year’s edition of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC). Portugal had the largest representation ever at the 73rd edition of one of the world’s largest events dedicated to space. The...
by Nuno Gomes | Sep 20, 2022 | News
With less than a month to kick off the 3rd edition of the European Rocketry Challenge – EuRoC, the first European competition of its kind, the Portuguese Space Agency hosted a panel dedicated to space education and outreach at the 73rd International Astronautical...
by Nuno Gomes | Aug 29, 2022 | News
If you ask anyone in the world who is the most known astronaut of all times, they will likely say either Neil Armstrong or Yuri Gagarin. But the feats they accomplished, deeply graved in our history and our collective minds, happened more than half a century ago, at a...
by Nuno Gomes | Aug 3, 2022 | News
The Sentinel-1B satellite has been officially deemed inoperable and its mission terminated. The announcement, made this Wednesday by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), comes after several attempts to resolve an anomaly detected in the...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 12, 2022 | News
This is “an exciting moment for science and humanity”: we are finally getting to know the first images captured by the James Webb space telescope, launched on December 25th, 2021. The first image captured by the space telescope has already been released...