Centro de Astrofísica e Gravitação (CENTRA), Instituto Superior Técnico

More space organisations in Portugal

• Minho Aerospace Students' Team (MAST) · Academic Institution · Guimarães

  University of Minho student aerospace team — builds experimental rockets and CubeSat technology, selected for the European Rocketry Challenge 2026.

• Planetário do Porto – Centro Ciência Viva · Academic Institution · Porto

  University of Porto planetarium and Ciência Viva science centre — runs public astronomy and space science sessions, talks and school programmes.

• Porto Space Team · Academic Institution · Porto

  University of Porto student rocketry association at FEUP — develops hybrid rockets and competes in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC).

• Rocket Experiment Division (RED), AeroTéc – Instituto Superior Técnico · Academic Institution · Lisbon

  Instituto Superior Técnico student rocketry team — designs, builds and launches solid-propellant rockets and competes in the European Rocketry Challenge.

• Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) · Research Institution · Porto

  Private non-profit astrophysics research association in Porto — hosts the Porto node of the IA and runs the Planetário do Porto.

• Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) · Research Institution · Porto

  Portuguese national astrophysics and space science institute — conducts research on exoplanets, cosmology and space instrumentation, with nodes in Porto and Lisbon.

• Space Radiation Environment and Effects Group (SpaceRad), LIP · Research Institution · Lisbon

  LIP particle physics laboratory group in Lisbon — develops space radiation monitors and models, including RADEM on ESA's JUICE and BERM on BepiColombo.

• +ATLANTIC CoLAB · Research Institution · Lisbon

  Portuguese collaborative laboratory for the Atlantic — applies satellite remote sensing, Copernicus data and AI to ocean and coastal monitoring.