Devices that will fly on a probe to Jupiter and its moons are being developed by Poland’s space company Astonika.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst emits an amount of energy comparable to the total energy that the Sun will emit over the entire course of its life. After decades of search, two such phenomena, in the range of very high energy, have been recently by scientists including Polish researchers.
Internet users have cast nearly 90,000 votes in a poll to choose a Polish word for an unnamed planet and star.
Scientists say they have found what could be the solar system’s smallest dwarf planet.
The Polish Space Agency and NASA have teamed up to cooperate in the fields of robotics and planetary protection.
2I/Borisov is the first-ever comet from another planetary system caught travelling through the Solar System. Astronomers from Poland and the Netherlands have just described it. Researchers have one more year to observe this amazing celestial object.
New space research is a great opportunity for Poland. Poland should become a world leader in the construction of small interplanetary ships, NASA engineer Artur B. Chmielewski said during the lecture accompanying the 10th Night at the Institute of Aviation.
A consortium of Wroclaw universities, PAS institute and a company is building a bionanosatellite that will allow to study cancer cells in space. In the future, their technology can be used by other companies and institutions wishing to conduct research in orbit.
Representatives of Polish universities, the Wrocław-based company SatRevolution and the American company Virgin Orbit signed an agreement this week in Katowice, forming a consortium that plans to send a Polish satellite to Mars and its moons.