HYADES
Searching for the cosmic origins of Earth’s oceans and new reservoirs of water in our Solar System and beyond
HYADES is a concept of an Earth-orbiting space telescope designed for studies of water and its isotopic composition in comets and asteroids. The project is being developed in two parallel variants, one funded under the Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) and the other proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA). Select the variant you would like to learn more about:
On October 11, 2026, we conducted a stratospheric experiment in which samples of materials used in the HYADES space mission were carried to an altitude of nearly 35 km. The experiment was organized by researchers and PhD students from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at Jagiellonian […]
On 25 September 2026, HYADES took part in the Małopolska Researchers’ Night. Tomasz Kawalec led workshops on the direct reception of data from the MetOp-B, MetOp-C and Meteor-M N2-3 weather satellites. These satellites orbit the Earth in low Earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of about 810–820 km. A great […]
On 5 August 2026, the HYADES Space Telescope was included in the Polish Roadmap for Research Infrastructures (PMIB) – Poland’s official national roadmap identifying major research facilities, laboratories and systems of strategic importance to the development of Polish science. HYADES is listed as a national research infrastructure led by the […]