Health in Space: Portugal’s Role in a Growing Frontier
By Pedro Lacerda When we think about space exploration, we often imagine rockets, satellites, and distant planets. But behind every mission is a simple
How Cinema and TV Shaped How We See Living in Space
By Pedro Lacerda When we think about living in space, we often picture it through the lens of film. Sleek corridors, glowing panels, and
From Debris to Design: The Future of Space Junkyards
There are tens of thousands of pieces of debris currently orbiting Earth. Old satellites, spent rocket stages, thermal blankets, fragments from past collisions —
The Everyday Physics of Space
On Earth, you wake up, sit up, walk to the kitchen, turn on the tap, pour coffee, take a shower, flush the toilet, and
From Rockets to Routes: The Emerging Landscape of Space Transportation
Until recently, space transportation meant one thing: launch. A few companies, a handful of rockets, and an expensive ticket to orbit—if you were lucky.
Leaving Earth (Briefly): The Rise and Reach of Space Tourism
Space tourism was never modest in fiction. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, passengers travel aboard a silent spaceplane to a wheel-shaped orbital station, sipping
Building for Beyond: A Practical Look at Space Architecture
Space architecture is a strange field. It deals with building environments for places where humans did not evolve and were never meant to live.
Life in Space
I wake up to the soft sound of simulated birdsong and the sunrise reproduced by a strip of LEDs that gradually illuminates the capsule.
Exploring solar Dynamics with Mathematical Morphology
Mathematical Morphology is an image processing tool with the capacity of filtering the image, remove unwanted features, or highlighting important features. It can be
Why investigating the magnetic field of earth-directed coronal mass ejections is important for society’s wellbeing?
Magnetic helicity is a measure of the twist and linkage of a magnetic field. Magnetic helicity’s dynamics can tell us important information about CMEs