// Competitions & Events
Pushing Boundaries
Porto Space Team participates in prestigious aerospace competitions worldwide, testing our designs and capabilities against the best university teams.
Porto Space Team participates in prestigious aerospace competitions worldwide, testing our designs and capabilities against the best university teams.
// EuRoC
The European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC) is the first rocket launch competition exclusively dedicated to European university teams. Organized by the Portuguese Space Agency since 2020, the competition brings together student teams from across Europe in the Alentejo region of Portugal.
Building on consistent growth and increasing recognition, the 2025 edition is held with the support of the Portuguese Army and the Municipality of Constância.
In 2023, we attended EuRoC, held in Constância, Portugal. Although we did not compete, our presence allowed us to gain valuable insights into the event and observe how other teams approached the challenge.
This experience proved instrumental in preparing us more effectively for EuRoC 2024 and in shaping the development of our first prototype, the Invictus 1.0. It also gave us a clearer understanding of the competition's dynamics, technical requirements, and organizational standards.
In 2024, we competed for the first time in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC). Porto Space Team participated with the first iteration of the Invictus project, the Invictus 1.0. This was a major milestone for the entire team, marking our debut in an actual rocketry competition.
During the event, we successfully completed all evaluation stages, including the Critical Design Review (CDR) and, later, the Flight Readiness Review (FRR), demonstrating both the technical soundness of our project and our readiness for launch operations.
In 2025, we returned to the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC) stage with renewed ambition. Porto Space Team presented Invictus II, the second iteration of the project, marked by a significant technological leap and greater structural efficiency compared to its predecessor.
Our participation this year served to validate the team's ability to evolve, presenting to the international jury a substantially more complex and optimized vehicle, consolidating the technical knowledge that now serves as the basis for our future challenges.
// Cubesat Portugal
CubeSat Portugal is a competitive educational initiative promoted by the Portuguese Space Agency, designed to empower higher education students through the practical development of a complete space mission.
The program challenges academic teams to go through the entire engineering cycle of a nanosatellite. From critical design and validation testing to launch and in-orbit operations, with the dual objective of validating national technology in space and training a new generation of qualified engineers for the "New Space" industry, with the help and evaluation of several companies in the field.
From May 19th to 21st, our team participated in the CubeSat Portugal BootCamp, an intense and inspiring experience designed to support the development of our project ICARUS, which focuses on designing and building a 1U CubeSat.
Over the course of three days, we engaged in technical workshops and expert-led lectures, connected with fellow teams, and presented our Preliminary Design Review (PDR). This key milestone provided us with insightful feedback from professionals in the aerospace sector, helping us strengthen and refine our approach.
We came back with fresh knowledge, renewed motivation, and a clear path forward as we move into the next phases of the competition.
