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...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
Imagine “a highway with an uncontrolled crowd of trucks, balls and millions of bullets flying”. This is not just an exercise in creativity: it is what happens in Earth’s orbit. Operational satellites orbit among “enormous amounts of space...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
We know it is going to happen because it is already happening: a new space economy generating wealth, jobs and products that benefits all humankind. Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space industry, today at 350 billion USD, will be 1 trillion USD in 2040. From...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 3, 2022 | Events, News
The Portuguese Space Agency is organizing the 5th edition of the New Space Atlantic Summit, a conference that has already become a key event for the promotion of space technologies. Under the slogan Making Space for a Sustainable Earth, this year’s edition,...
