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Tomasz Kawalec was a speaker at Polish Optical Conference 2023 (PKO’2023). He gave a talk on space optics, discussing the optical system planned for the HYADES mission. The Polish Optical Conference aims to integrate the community of Polish opticians. It creates a platform for meeting and exchanging views for a broad group of people who value the development of Polish scientific and engineering thought in optics. The conference was organized by the Optics Section of Read more…

On June 2th, HYADES team members: Michał Dahus, Piotr Guzik and Mikołaj Sabat were invited speakers at the seminar of Polish Space Research Centre (CBK PAN) in Warsaw. We presented the main goals of our project to scientific staff of CBK PAN, also in the context of future cooperation with Polish Space Research Centre.

Creotech Instruments S.A. is preparing a detailed mission analysis for the HYADES project. It includes mission scenario planning that meets the criteria of the high-accuracy pointing (less than 30 arcsec in 3 axes) and  optimal power-mass budget within a small satellite (CubeSat platform). Creotech Instruments is Poland’s leading manufacturer of satellite systems and components, as well as advanced electronics for quantum computer control systems and other applications. The Company delivers proprietary solutions to the world’s Read more…

The origin of Earth’s oceans was the focus of the latest episode of Astronarium. Much attention was given to the HYADES project, covered by our team members: Michał Drahus, Tomasz Kawalec, Mikołaj Sabat and Piotr Guzik. Astronarium is Poland’s most popular TV series dedicated to astronomy, emitted by TVP. All episodes are available also on YouTube.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded €3 million to the HYADES project, which will develop a dedicated space telescope to observe hydrogen and deuterium around small bodies in the Solar System. The goal of the project is to determine the origin of water on our planet and to search for new, previously unknown water reservoirs in the Solar System and other planetary systems. The five-year project will be carried out at the Jagiellonian University. Read more…