The Institute of Space Sciences will start the new year ahead with a strategy retreat in Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey from January 24th to 26th. This will be the first retreat to be held after the pandemic! The centre celebrated its first strategy retreat in 2017 aiming at create an interactive, pleasurable atmosphere for team building, to help the whole institute get aligned, look into the future and take a big picture view.

During the month of December, the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) officially started a new research project approved by the State Research Agency (AEI) within the call “Strategy projects oriented to ecologic transition”, in order to measure soil moisture using drones.

Two Earth-mass planets orbiting a red dwarf—the star called GJ 1002—, have been found recently by an international team of astronomers. The study is led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and has the participation of members of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC  — Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) and the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC).