by Hermínia Saraiva | Oct 18, 2023 | News
Aerospace Team Graz, a team of university students from Austria, was the big winner of the 4th edition of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), a European university rocket launch competition organised by the Portuguese Space Agency, which took place in Constância...
by Nuno Gomes | Sep 27, 2023 | News
Thirty years after the launch of PoSAT-1, the first (and so far only) Portuguese satellite to be launched into space, Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues received the Medal of Scientific Merit. The head of the PoSAT-1 consortium received the award last Monday from the...
by Nuno Gomes | Aug 30, 2023 | News
Now in its fourth edition, the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), a university rocket launch competition that starts on 10 October and is promoted by the Portuguese Space Agency, is scheduled to return to Ribatejo between 10 and 16 October. For the first time, the...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Aug 7, 2023 | Events, News
At 2.45 a.m. (Lisbon time) on 25 September 1993, flight 59 of the Ariane 4 rocket was launched from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. It represented the space ambitions of a country preparing to put a satellite into orbit for the first time. In the 30th...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Aug 1, 2023 | Events, News
The Portuguese Space Agency, together with the United Nations (in this case through UNOOSA, the United Nations Office for Space Affairs), is organising a conference on the Management and Sustainability of Space Activities in May 2024. The meeting comes in preparation...
by Nuno Gomes | Jul 25, 2023 | News
Utah desert, United States. Reddish earth, rugged rock formations, dry, infertile soil. Hardly anyone would guess that this is where otherworldly possibilities are being studied and tested — literally. At 6 am, the day dawns and the sunny landscape makes it look like...
