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04.12.2023. Communication director at Thorium Space Technology Ewa Poławska (L), Thorium Space S.A. CEO Paweł Rymaszewski (2L), R&D engineer at Thorium Space S.A. Piotr Kurgan (C) and member of the Supervisory Board at Thorium Space Technology Hector Fenech (2R) at a press conference at the PAP Press Centre in Warsaw, February 4. Topic: 'Thorium Space S.A. and the European Space Agency launch work on the Polish SmallGEO telecommunications satellite. PAP/Leszek Szymański

Work is underway on first Polish telecommunications satellite

Thorium Space and the European Space Agency are working on the first Polish telecommunications satellite. The SmallGEO device could be in orbit in five years.

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    The European CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) has detected an unusual system with six planets that has remained unchanged since its formation billions of years ago.

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    Asteroids and the Moon could contain undiscovered element

    According to the new model, an undiscovered, superheavy, stable element may exist. That's not all: it can exist in space, for example on asteroids. A Polish company wants to search for it.

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    Polish consortium to design Moon mapping mission

    A Polish consortium will design a mission to map the Moon, thanks to which in the future it will be possible to extract and process resources - minerals and natural raw materials. Precise data will be provided by a satellite based on the Polish Hypersat platform.

  • Artist's vision of the planetary system WASP-84. The super-Earth discovered by the Toruń astronomers is a dark dot visible against the background of the star's disc, captured during a transit phenomenon. The brownish globe visible in the distance is the previously known hot Jupiter. iFot. Press release / portal.umk.pl
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    Toruń astronomers discover super-Earth

    It is almost twice the size and fifteen times the mass of the Earth. It orbits its star in just 35 hours in a very tight orbit, causing its surface temperature to exceed one thousand degrees Celsius. The planet was discovered by the astronomers from Toruń, the Nicolaus Copernicus University reports.

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    Eighteen Polish experiments have chance of being conducted on ISS

    The preliminary list of experiments to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) includes 18 proposals submitted by Polish universities, institutions and companies. This is an opportunity for unique research in microgravity conditions, although there is no guarantee that all of them will be carried out as part of the Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański mission in 2024.

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    Sławosz Uznański will fly into space, possibly in August 2024

    'We hope that in November this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) will officially decide on the mission of Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański, who could fly into space as early as August 2024,’ Waldemar Buda, Minister of Development and Technology, said in Łódź.

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    NASA mission IMAP with Polish GLOWS instrument passes review

    The NASA heliospheric mission Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has passed the system integration review for all 10 instruments of the satellite, including the GLOWS instrument built by the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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    ARIEL space telescope, exoplanet hunter, successfully passes Preliminary Design Review

    ARIEL, the next-gen mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), has successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review. The launch of the mission, which aims to observe the chemical composition of distant extrasolar planets, is scheduled for 2029. The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences is preparing one of the key instruments of the telescope.

  • Warsaw, 11.01.2023. ESA astronaut Sławosz Uznański during a conference on Poland's involvement in the European Space Agency (ESA), at the seat of the Ministry of Development and Technology in Warsaw. Credit: PAP/Piotr Nowak
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    Poland to propose Sławosz Uznański for international space mission

    ‘We will present the candidacy of Sławosz Uznański for participation in a space mission in Earth orbit,’ Waldemar Buda, the Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda announced on social media.

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