In 1994 Poland as the first Central-European Country signed the co-operation agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) and in 2014 the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) was established. Thanks to this Polish institutions and companies have been attending ESA’s missions, including the most recent one JUICE – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – to research Jupiter…
Every festival is characterized by the soul that moves it and in the European panorama, one of the most open to the themes of social inclusion and innovation is the WeMakeFuture festival, which this year will be held in Bologna on 13-15 June. Italy is certainly not the first country that springs to mind if…
The European Space Agency’s project AGRONAUT is developing a multi-purpose Moon lander intended to support a broad range of missions, like supplies of cargo for bases, researches, rovers and power stations. The main element of the lander is a robotic manipulator to carry objects to the Moon surface engineered by a Polish space robotics company…
On 20 March the Polish Minister of Digitalisation and the Minister of Science and Higher Education signed the European Declaration on Quantum Technologies of December 2023, also known as the Quantum Pact, already jointed by 18 EU Member States. The Quantum Pact expects all the European quantum computers to be connected within one network. The…
The Minister of Digitization has appointed an advisory team on artificial intelligence. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digitization Krzysztof Gawkowski has established a PL/AI Artificial Intelligence Advisory Team for Poland, which will develop recommendations for using AI to improve specific areas of state operations, the Ministry of Digitization said in a press release. The…
Last year ORLEN Group launched H2 Academy, the first Polish education programme for hydrogen specialists in various industries, like manufacturing, aviation, shipping and transportation. So far two courses have been organised with a few dozen lecturers and experts for 60 students and graduates at several locations in Poland, like Anwill Włocławek (chemical facilities), Toyota Motor…
Centralny Port Komunikacyjny – CPK (also called Solidarity Transport Hub) has launched a tender for design, delivery and implementation of the Baggage Handling System (BHS) for CPK airport to be erected 37 km west of Warsaw. Applications may be filed by 12 February and CPK invites companies that in the last 25 years have launched BHS in…
Creotech Instruments from Poland signed EUR 400k contract with OHB Systems AG to engineer a satellite capable of docking and receiving fuel from another satellite orbiting Earth. OHB leads international consortium that realises this innovative project for the European Space Agency (ESA). In the beginning of 2024 Creotech started designing 60 kg satellite based on…
In 2023 astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń discovered a new planet twice bigger and 15 times heavier than Earth. It circles the star known as WASP-84 in just 35 hours in a very tight orbit, causing its surface temperature to exceed 1000 degrees Celsius. As its rocky surface is directly exposed to…
In November 2023 PGNiG Upstream Norway from ORLEN Group took-over the extraction company KUFPEC Norway AS, subsidiary of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company k.s.c.c., thanks to which ORLEN’s gas extraction in the Norwegian Continental Shelf will increase by 1/3 to exceed 4 billion cubic meters per year. The transaction includes shares in 5 fields already…
In November 2023 Thorium Space S.A. joined HummingSAT project of the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop the first Polish telecommunications satellite SmallGEO expected to be put in orbit in 5 years. Thorium is a Polish company that designs and constructs innovative telecom systems. It was established in 2017 and operates in Wrocław and Warsaw….
On Poland’s Independence Day 11 November 2023 two new Polish satellites were put in orbit by Falcon 9 (SpaceX) starting from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to launch in total 90 satellites for various companies from all-over the world. The first Polish satellite Intuition-1 observes the Earth with a hyperspectral instrument and on-board computing…
