Cleaning space debris: role for Poland

The Polish Space Agency is part of the European Surveillance and Tracking consortium, which focuses on detecting, cataloguing and predicting the movements of objects orbiting the Earth – so-called space debris which threatens space research.

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The agency is launching projects to help Polish companies benefit from the development of space research in Europe.

Poland has a representative on the consortium board, and Polish telescopes and sensors are used in the space surveillance and clean-up project.

The coming decade is to see the development of systems limiting the formation of space debris and methods to clean it up. Polish companies will be taking part in such efforts.