April 12, 2024
CEiiA
In 2024, CEiiA placed Portugal in the New Space.
In 2024 Portugal has made history! This has been a great year as we have officially entered the New Space era!
At CEiiawe are very honored to have been recognized as a Game Changer by The AmCham Portugal, during AmbCham Gala
As Ambassador Randi Charno Levine said: “..on March 4, at 10.05PM, Porto time, Aeros MH-1, the first satellite developed in Portugal in the last three decades – successfully blasted off from the Vandenberg Space Station in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9.This project has been developed thanks to our best minds, several of them in North of Portugal – CEiiA, the Universities of Porto and Minho, and… the MIT Portugal Program”The MH-1 nanosatellite, and its Aeros mission, was also honoured as Mission of the Year at the Small Satellites Conference 2024 in the USA, one of the most prestigious awards in the industry.