January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... as the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules and the Saturn V launcher. However, it was only in 1989 that Portugal joined the first space-related international organisation when it became a member of the European Meteorological Organisation (EUMETSAT...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...industry. In this article, Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson delves into the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium’s vision, explores Portugal’s broader space aspirations and describes how an Azores spaceport might fill a gap in Europe’s medium launcher capacity...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being Madeira. The port, which if implemented would add to a growing number of countries planning spaceports...
13 May 2023
Inmarsat boss calls for urgent action to reduce space debris
... a no-holes-barred keynote speech to more than 100 delegates at the New Space Atlantic Summit, organised by the Portugal Space Agency (PSA) in Lisbon this week. “It would be irresponsible of me not to call out that I believe we are at a crisis...
21 November 2023
Britain announces plan to launch EO satellite
... new pathfinder satellite, of the same design and to be launched in the same orbital plane as three others from Portugal, is being co-funded by Open Cosmos, which is based on the Harwell Space Campus in Oxfordshire. Rafael Jorda Siquier, Chief...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... to hear and interact with a high-profile list of speakers at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Carcavelos, Portugal. Clive Simpson, ROOM Editor-in-Chief, reports on two of the keynote speakers, neither of whom shied away from...
