Poland could soon see the start of its first space mission after the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) and Virgin Orbit, the California-based satellite launch company, signed an agreement to deliver LauncherOne to Poland, a technology for sending objects to space.
Developed by Hitler’s scientists to attack Allied cities in retaliation for their bombings of German cities, the V-2 rocket dubbed ‘Hitler’s Wonder Weapon’ was discovered in the village of Mokre in eastern Poland.
Two Polish-made observation satellites were part of a group of seven launched into orbit on Wednesday by the US Virgin Orbit company's LauncherOne rocket.
If it weren’t for the Polish engineer born in a small town northwest of Łódź, World Space Week, annually celebrated by 95 nations from Oct 4th- Oct 10th, probably wouldn’t exist. There may have been space travel, but not as we know it.
A Polish soldier was wounded on Wednesday in a rocket attack in Iraq but his life is not threatened and other Polish soldiers are safe, Poland's Armed Forces Operational Command and the Ministry of National Defence tweeted late on Wednesday.
The fragments of the V-2 rocket, short for Vergeltungswaffen 2, which translates as Retribution Weapon 2 and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile, were found near the village of Niwiska.
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