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...
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...
