by Nuno Gomes | Jul 14, 2022 | Opinion
It’s Wednesday, 13th July, 6 o’clock in the morning, and it’s pouring rain in Kourou. I arrived in French Guiana on Monday evening to bear eye-witness to the launch of the ESA’s new medium-lift Vega-C rocket. This is the rocket that will in the future also...
by Hermínia Saraiva | Feb 3, 2022 | Newsletter, Opinion
The cryosphere – that is, the part of the planet that is frozen – is one of the most sensitive spheres of the Earth System, and it is undergoing rapid changes that generate global impacts. The cryosphere includes the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets...
by Nuno Gomes | Dec 23, 2021 | Opinion
The largest and most complex space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space Telescope, is ready to be launched into space. This international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency, has led hundreds of scientists, engineers and...
by Nuno Gomes | Dec 21, 2021 | Opinion
The National Plan for Integrated Rural Fire Management (see RCM no. 45-A/2020) states that consensus was reached after the tragic fires that ravaged the country in 2017: the Independent Technical Commission identified systemic weaknesses, some of which are chronic and...
by Hermínia Saraiva | May 21, 2021 | Opinion
2008, on my way to Germany, flying above the clouds, following a dream that was more than 20 years old… Chosen from among 8,000 candidates, I was one of 900 who took psycho technical tests in the first selection phase, undoubtedly one of the most difficult. It was not...
by PTSpace-Admin | Apr 14, 2021 | Opinion
Copernicus, the European Union Earth Observation Programme, is one of the most advanced and complete remote sensing systems worldwide. The programme comprises a series of Sentinel satellites (eight currently in orbit and many more under development), other...
