Warsaw firms ink contracts with European Space Agency

Poland is a member of the European Space Agency since 2012. Recently, 13 Warsaw-based tech firms have signed contracts with the ESA. Eric Morel of the ESA said that the new contracts are bound to give birth to new jobs. The Philae lander includes a measuring unit that was developed by the Polish Space Research Centre. The current contracts with the ESA are worth €2 million. Poland contributes €30 million to the ESA's annual budget, a lot of which comes back to Polish space research firms. The Polish Space Agency has recently been set up and its annual budget will amount to PLN 10 million, as reported by IAR.