by Nuno Gomes | Jan 11, 2022 | News
Wasp-103b is an exoplanet of several particularities. It orbits a star 1.7 times larger and about 200 degrees hotter than the Sun. In addition, it is extremely close to its star — so much so that it takes just one day to complete one orbit. Scientists have suspected...
by Nuno Gomes | Dec 22, 2021 | Events, News
Future: this is the word that guides Space Day. The event, which aims to celebrate the European space ecosystem, highlights the most promising solutions and entrepreneurs through the Space Awards, in which the Copernicus and Galileo Masters were handed out. The two...
by Nuno Gomes | Dec 15, 2021 | News
How did exoplanets originate? How do they evolve? What are they made of? Therese are some of the questions that the European Space Agency (ESA) Ariel mission will seek to answer from 2029, when it is scheduled to be launched on the new European launcher, the Ariane 6....
by Nuno Gomes | Nov 30, 2021 | Events, News
Due to the pandemic evolution and the rise of covid-19 positive cases both in Portugal and Europe, the Portuguese Space Agency, Portugal Space, has decided to postpone the I Copernicus National Conference, which was scheduled for the 13th – 14th of December, at...
by Nuno Gomes | Nov 23, 2021 | News
Ministers responsible for the space sector from all countries represented in the European Space Agency (ESA) unanimously approved the Matosinhos Manifesto during the ESA Ministerial Summit held this Friday at CEiiA, in Matosinhos The document envisions accelerating...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Nov 18, 2021 | News
The Portuguese Space Agency – Portugal Space, presents this week, during the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting (IMM) of the European Space Agency (ESA), the Catalogue Portugal Space – Overview of the Portuguese Space Ecosystem, an in-depth portrait of the Portuguese...
