Space radiation is 'no joke.' Astronauts may use water and clothes as emergency shielding
Long-duration space missions face many hazards, but one of the least visible is cosmic radiation. Aleksandra Rutczyńska, an electronics engineer at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), develops radiation sensors flown on NASA's Artemis missions to the Moon.
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Polish scientists join mission to study how solar wind shapes Earth’s magnetic shield
Polish scientists will play a key role in a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetosphere, after the agency's Science Programme Committee recommended the Plasma Observatory as the next mission under its Voyage 2050 programme.
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Polish firm joins ESA project to develop robotic 'smart skin' for Moon and Mars missions
Polish space robotics company PIAP Space has joined a European Space Agency (ESA) project to develop an advanced protective "smart skin" for robotic arms intended for future missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as for operations in orbit.
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Polish scientists build key instrument for ESA mission to intercept ancient comets
Polish scientists have completed and delivered the first flight-ready instrument for the European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor mission, which aims to study a comet entering the Solar System for the first time and possibly even an object originating from interstellar space.
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Polish engineers to build equipment for European space mission telescopes
Polish engineers are developing telescope equipment for three satellites in the European Space Agency’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission, known as LISA, which aims to create the first space-based observatory designed to study gravitational waves generated by some of the most powerful events in the Universe.
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Polish-built LeopardISS computer successfully tested on International Space Station
A Polish-designed onboard computer, LeopardISS, has been successfully tested aboard the International Space Station, where it was used to run autonomous navigation and Earth-observation algorithms directly in orbit, according to its developers at KP Labs.
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Tiny space mineral from meteorite sheds light on ancient cosmic chemistry
A mineral no larger than 0.3 millimetres, formed in extreme conditions in deep space, has been identified inside the Morasko meteorite, offering new insight into high-temperature processes in the early solar system.
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Wrocław scientists develop faster ‘breakthrough’ satellite communication
Scientists have developed a new satellite communication technology that dramatically increases data throughput without requiring additional radio spectrum, marking what experts describe as a breakthrough for the Internet of Things.
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Moon helps scientists track hidden air pollution over Arctic and Antarctic
The air over the Arctic and Antarctic may look perfectly clean, but scientists say it still contains tiny particles of dust, smoke and sea salt that can affect weather and climate.
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IGNIS mission alters astronauts’ vitamin D levels and balance, AI analysis shows
Preliminary results from the Astro Performance experiment indicate that astronauts returning from the IGNIS mission experienced significant changes in vitamin D levels and motor stability, researchers said, after analysing more than 14,000 health parameters collected before and after the flight.
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