Satellite set for space

27th January 2012

Poland looks likely to see its first satellite in space very soon, according to reports this week.

The ‘PW-Sat’ is one of nine satellites that will be launched on February 9 as part of a European Space Agency project which aims to test how to pull satellites back out of orbit, writes Gazeta Wyborcza.

Roughly the size of a Rubik’s Cube, it was built by students at Warsaw’s University of Technology in collaboration with the Space Research Centre.

“If all goes well, this will be the first Polish satellite to ever be in space,” Maciej Urbanowicz, one of the students involved with the project, told TOK FM.

“All of them are different sizes, the smallest is about the size of a phone and the largest is as big as a bus.”