Poland in space
From the space agency in Gdańsk and the Polish Academy of Sciences institutes in Warsaw to observatories, radio telescopes and a planetarium – places where Poland studies space and builds equipment for it.
- Polska Agencja Kosmiczna (POLSA) Gdańsk · Pomeranian
The state agency based in Gdańsk that coordinates Poland's participation in EU space programmes. - Centrum Badań Kosmicznych PAN Warszawa · Masovian
An institute that has developed over 70 instruments for satellites and probes, including Rosetta, Cassini-Huygens and Solar Orbiter. - Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN Warszawa · Masovian
Home of the ground station and flight control room of the Polish BRITE scientific nanosatellites. - Politechnika Warszawska – PW-Sat Warszawa · Masovian
Students from the astronautics club built PW-Sat, the first Polish satellite, launched on 13 February 2012. - Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Kraków · Lesser Poland
An observatory founded in 1792, today at Fort Skała; it conducts, among other things, radio astronomy research. - Radioteleskop RT4 w Piwnicach Piwnice k. Torunia · Kuyavian-Pomeranian
The 32-metre radio telescope of the Institute of Astronomy of Nicolaus Copernicus University, part of the European VLBI network. - Obserwatorium Astrogeodynamiczne CBK PAN Borówiec k. Poznania · Greater Poland
An observatory that measures satellite positions with lasers; a LOFAR radio telescope station also operates here. - Park Technologii Kosmicznych Zielona Góra (Nowy Kisielin) · Lubusz
Satellite electronics laboratories and a clean room for assembling satellites; partners include the University of Zielona Góra and the Space Research Centre. - Planetarium Śląskie w Chorzowie Chorzów · Silesian
The first planetarium in Poland, opened on 4 December 1955; it promotes astronomy and astronautics.
Route source: polsa.gov.pl; descriptions based on the institutions' websites (as of 2026-11-06).