Proespaço – The Portuguese Association of Space Industries, a non-profit making organization.

Principal aims:

• To promote in Portugal activities related to space in all their aspects.
• To be a representative organization, acting as an intermediary and interface with the public administration and national and international organizations in all matters relating to the space industry.
• To work at all government levels (local, regional, national and supra-national) to achieve a substantial increase in the participation of Portuguese industry in space-related activities at a national, European and global level.
• To provide expert information on the space industry in Portugal and on all related research, development and support programmes.
• To provide a single voice to represent Portuguese industry in regard to the orientation of Portuguese space policies.
• To extend and strengthen cooperation between companies, universities and state research institutes in R&D activities aimed at developing new technologies and products for use in space.
• To contribute studies, analyses and viewpoints to the institutes and organizations responsible for drawing up Portugal’s space policy and related industrial development plans. 
  

Secondary aims:

• To act as an organized forum for debate and business development to meet the needs of the Portuguese space community.
• To collect and exchange information relating to markets skills and know-how for the benefit of Association members.
• To set up and launch working groups to formulate and plan activities in specific areas of common interest.
• To represent and communicate the common interests of the Portuguese space industry to all sectors of society and to international organizations with similar aims.
• To inform society as a whole of the importance in everyday life, both today and in the future, of the application of space technology.
• To provide foreign institutions with easy access to information about the Portuguese space industry.
• To organize visits to Portugal and to relevant meetings for delegations from overseas.
• To create, maintain and keep permanently updated a complete catalogue of the Portuguese space industry, including a directory of members, covering the space and earth sectors as well as related services.
• To represent the Portuguese space industry at international fairs and exhibitions.