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Kraków team launches world’s FIRST satellite which navigates with ‘spinning magnetic liquid’

KRAKsat will be placed inside the Cygnus spacecraft, which will be launched into orbit aboard an Antares 230 rocket, with lift-off scheduled for 10:46 pm Polish time on Wednesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility, on the US east coast. KRAKsat Space Systems/Facebook

The fifth Polish satellite in near-Earth orbit, the KRAKsat will be the world’s first to use a ferrofluid flywheel. The main task of the satellite is to investigate how this will behave in space and whether it can be used in the space industry as a flywheel.

Talks ongoing on re-opening UN-Habitat office in Poland - minister

Talks are continuing on the subject of re-opening the UN-Habitat office in Poland, Investment and Development Minister Jerzy Kwieciński announced during the First National Urban Forum in Kraków (southern Poland) on Monday.

Warsaw restaurants keep their stars while Kraków sees a surge in awards in new Michelin guide

Michelin’s Main Cities of Europe 2019 guide sees Poland remaining strong on the culinary map of Europe.

Trendy Kraków district to house futuristic literature centre in honour of sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem

Hailed as being a ‘flagship cultural institution’, Planet Lem, as it’s called, has been designed by the award-winning team behind Warsaw’s Hala Koszyki food hall and the Pixel building in Poznań.

Oarsome! Kraków lad to set the pace at Oxford-Cambridge boat race

The Boat Race is one of the oldest sporting events in the world, attracting up to 250,000 members of the public as well as Oxbridge students and alumni to the banks of Thames, with tens of millions of others watching it on TV.

Tate that! 'Striking and intimate', photographer's black and whites exhibited at London's prestigious TATE gallery

Joanna Piotrowska has made a name for herself with her black and white photographs shot in close-up family environments that make a broader statement about the world we live in.

LOT Polish Airlines launches new Kraków-Tel Aviv connection

LOT Polish Airlines, the flag carrier of Poland, has launched a new connection from Kraków (southern Poland) to Tel Aviv, Israel, Kraków Airport has announced.

Polish archaeologists develop digital guide to southern Jordan

Archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, southern Poland, have developed a professional, digital guide to southern Jordan, which includes not only information about the nature and landscapes but also a word about Polish research in the region.

Polish regional airports service record number of passengers

Thirteen Polish regional airports serviced a record number of 28.1 million passengers in 2018, 15.3 percent more than in the previous year, according to data from the Polish Regional Airports Union.

It’s back, nearly! Poland’s oldest museum housing masterpieces including da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’ set to reopen

The museum bears the name of the Czartoryskis, a Polish princely family. Founded in Puławy in 1801 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska, it claims to be the oldest museum facility in Poland.

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