Space

Polish project for ESA concluded

"Creotech Instruments, in cooperation with its partners, has concluded a project, which is of key significance for solar weather forecasting, that, in turn, is important in the face of problems with satellite and radio communication," according to Creotech CEO Grzegorz Brona. Piotr Polak/PAP

A Polish company has completed work on cloud-based solutions for space weather prediction for the European Space Agency (ESA).

Cinema’s juiciest secret explored in fascinating new documentary

VIDEO: Dubbed the ‘greatest sci-fi never made’, with a star cast and exotic locations, filming on Andrzej Żuławski’s science fiction epic began in 1976. A year later, production was halted following government intervention. Speculation and rumours have circulated ever since…

Polish astronaut becomes first Pole in unique space mission simulation inside lava tunnel

Agnieszka Elwertowska, a computer engineer and student of the WSB University in Gdańsk, took part in the CHILL-ICE mission organised by Euro Moon Mars ESTEC in one of Iceland’s lava tunnels.

Space photographer ‘over the moon’ after NASA names her stunning meteor pic ‘photo of the day’

Marzena Rogozińska captured the incredible shot on 13th August in Busko-Zdroj as the spectacular meteor shower lit up the sky as the Earth passed through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a huge behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.

Wrocław firm to send thousands of new ‘business-friendly’ satellites into space

The first to be launched on the Virgin Orbit and SpaceX Falcon 9 will be focused on helping the American agriculture market by processing data in space, something which the co-founder and CEO Grzegorz Zwoliński called a “complete innovation on the satellite market.”

Olsztyn scientists come up with ‘martian soil simulator’ to grow plants on Mars

The New Life Capsule enables them to create specific conditions for observing the development of algal-fungal biomass, which creates a special fertiliser.

Kraków start-up teams up with US nuclear firm to fly to the moon and extract rare energy isotope

Experts from the Solar System Resources Corporation estimate that 200 tonnes of Helium-3 would be enough to satisfy the annual energy needs of the world’s population.

It’s The Debrief Christmas Special 2020!

It’s that time of year again for The Debrief Christmas Special! Hosted by John Beauchamp with guest Ed Wight, Managing Editor of The First News.

Breath-taking photos from space capture planet Earth in all its splendid beauty

The competition organised by Warsaw company CloudFerro set out to identify the most beautiful images of the Earth.

Astronomers discover smallest rogue planet in the galaxy

To locate the free-floating planet, a team of international astronomers led by those from the University of Warsaw’s OGLE team at the Astronomical Observatory used an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational microlensing.

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