2021 may be turning point for domestic space industry

Poles actively participate in the largest space missions. They are preparing, among others for the JUICE mission, which will explore Jupiter's largest satellites or the PROBA mission, ESA's first precision aviation mission in the world. Already next year built, among others by Poles, the STIX instrument will also start collecting data on solar flares. Polish scientists will have their hands full in 2021, as they participate in many space missions. According to Dr. Piotr Orleański from the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the space program is currently being prepared and everything will be known more or less in the middle of next year 

“Next year, our flagship STIX instrument will be included in the operational phase of the Solar Orbiter mission, the ESA mission to the Sun, where it will already collect specific data. At the moment, it is flying to the Sun, it has been pre-tested, the first attempts at scientific measurements have been made successfully, and from next year it will be included in the normal science campaign. It is very important for us because it will bring very interesting data in the field of X-ray spectrometry of the Sun,” Dr. Piotr Orleański, head of the FPGA Satellite Applications Laboratory at the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, said.

The mission of the European Space Agency Solar Orbiter is dedicated to exploring the sun. One of the six remote sensing instruments is the STIX X-ray telescope, built with the participation of Polish scientists. STIX (Spectrometer / Telescope for Imaging X-rays) is to record flares on the Sun. The mission is of great importance, it will allow you to answer some of the questions about the star, incl. about appearing spots or flares.

(Newseria)