Mission with participation of Polish astronaut to launch at the turn of June
The Polish technological and scientific mission to the International Space Station (ISS), with the participation of Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, will take place at the turn of June this year and last 16 days, Jarosław Sulkowski from the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology informed the Sejm.
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Polish astronaut to take flag and pierogi to ISS
Astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, will take a Polish flag and pierogi into space. During the conference preceding the Axiom-4 mission, he said that he wanted to show that space was for everyone.
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Instruments co-created by Polish scientists to study Earth's magnetosphere
Scientists and engineers preparing a set of instruments for the European Space Agency (ESA) to study the Earth's magnetosphere met in Warsaw. The advanced equipment will to fly into space on six small satellites.
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Space Research Centre PAS: Polish space instrument GLOWS now integrated with NASA satellite
GLOWS, the first research instrument for a NASA space mission designed and built entirely in Poland, has successfully passed tests and has been integrated with the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences reports. The mission is scheduled to launch in the second half of this year.
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Photo of Orion over Babia Góra selected NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
"A photo of Orion over Babia Góra, taken by Włodzimierz Bubak, was selected as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). The photograph was captured on the night of the winter solstice."
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Expert: Space debris will fall to Earth
If someone suffers damage as a result of a space debris impact, the state should apply for compensation on their behalf, says Bartosz Malinowski, PhD, a space law expert from the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He adds that space debris, e.g. fragments of rockets, will fall to Earth in the future.
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Scientists discover new class of cosmic X-ray sources
Astronomers working in an international team led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw have identified a new class of cosmic X-ray sources. The group of 29 objects was discovered by analysing over 20 years of data collected by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) survey, led by astronomers from the University of Warsaw.
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New space mission to reveal new details about the Sun's inner corona
A groundbreaking space mission named Proba-3 promises to reveal unprecedented insights into the Sun’s inner corona, a region previously studied only during rare and brief solar eclipses.
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Wrocław University of Science and Technology's gripper successfully passes space test
A silicone gripper actuated by low pressure works in space, according to research conducted by Wrocław University of Science and Technology students. The MACKI project was selected for the European Space Agency programme, allowing to test it in a state of weightlessness.
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Polish scientists rule out miniature black holes as main source of dark matter
Astronomers from the OGLE project at the University of Warsaw have provided new insights into the long-standing mystery of dark matter, ruling out the hypothesis that miniature black holes make up a significant portion of this elusive substance.
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