15 May 2024
Lisbon summit calls for urgent action on space threats
...UNOOSA told a major international conference in Lisbon, Portugal, this week. Aarti Holla-Maini said the world... member states to assume a shared responsibility. The UN Portugal conference provided the opportunity for Member States, the private sector...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
..., governments are lining up to create new national space agencies. Since 2016, New Zealand, Australia, Luxembourg, Uzbekistan, Portugal, Greece, El Salvador, Azerbaijan and Costa Rica have thrown their hat into the space industry ring...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... approved the bylaws of the Agencia Espacial Española (AEE). It followed in the footsteps of its European neighbour Portugal which created a space agency in 2019. During a break on the final day of the Small Satellites & Services International...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
...within an approximately 25-year timeframe. Addressing the 2024 Management and Sustainability of Outer Space Activities conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the Director of UNOOSA, Aarti Holla-Maini, stated: “Unlike the gradual crisis of climate change the...
02 April 2025
Bold ideas and big questions in our Spring 2025 issue
... to global communications and power grids The Rise of New Space Players – Profiling South Korea’s Innospace and Portugal’s emerging launch ambitions in the Azores Cross-Sector Innovation – How motor racing harnesses are helping improve...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... competitor. There are a number of nations across Europe with similar plans for opening commercial spaceports - including Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. In order to operate successfully in this rapidly evolving space...
