by Hermínia Saraiva | Dec 11, 2020 | News
Following recent approval by its national Parliament, Portugal has ratified the Convention establishing the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO). The Convention was signed by seven countries, including Portugal, in Rome on 12 March 2019, a critical milestone that...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Dec 3, 2020 | News
The SMART project, which brings together five Portuguese institutions and researchers from MIT Portugal, was the big winner of the first edition of the AI Moonshot Challenge, which received applications involving institutions from 13 countries. The winner was...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Dec 1, 2020 | News
About a year after the approval of the ADRIOS (Active Debris Removal and In-Orbit Servicing) programme, the European Space Agency (ESA) has signed, on December 1st 2020, an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by ClearSpace. An agreement that will allow...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 5, 2020 | News
Space can be the world’s highest and most exceptional laboratory. With this idea in mind, and in the week when the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station, Portugal Space is putting in place a seminar dedicated to Microgravity Business...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 3, 2020 | News
The AI Moonshot Challenge, which seeks disruptive ideas for plastic detection in the oceans, has attracted researchers from several countries, including the United Kingdom, Serbia, Estonia, Finland, Brazil, Canada and the United States, among others. In total, 38...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 28, 2020 | News
On the 30th October 2020, the Portuguese Space Agency is hosting the 3rd New Space Atlantic Summit. This year’s edition, which will be a purely virtual conference, lasting from 09:00-17:00 Lisbon time, will have a special focus on how the Atlantic region can use its...
