We are pleased to announce that on 17 November, 2023 Piotr Guzik succesfully defended his dissertation, “Interstellar minor bodies in the Solar System”. His Ph.D. degree was awarded on April 5 during the doctoral promotion at Collegium Novum. The ceremony was conducted by Jagiellonian University Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs Professor Read more…
Pursuant to §7 (1) and (3) of Resolution No. 61/X/2022 of the Senate of the Jagiellonian University of 26 October 2022 on the terms and conditions for admission to the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the Jagiellonian University in the academic year 2023/2024, the Director of the Read more…
For millennia, mankind has been asking fundamental questions about the origin of our Earth. One of the scientific problems to be solved is the origin of water on our planet. This very issue was addressed in the inaugural lecture of the 17th edition of the “Closer to Science” series, delivered Read more…
On September 18, we were hosting Kazuo Yoshioka from The University of Tokyo and Masaki Kuwabara from Rikkyo University in Tokyo. The main purpose of the meeting was to establish collaboration between our teams. We had a working meeting with the Solaris synchrotron science group, planning joint future research activities.
We participated in the XLI Meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society that took place in Toruń, on September 11-15, 2023. The Meeting has a special character because 100 years earlier, on February 19, 1923, in the city of Toruń the Polish Astronomical Society was found. Moreover, in 2023 we celebrate Read more…
On July 12, Michał Drahus, Tomasz Kawalec and Mikołaj Sabat attended a meeting with the scientific staff of SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre in Krakow. They gave a presentation about the HYADES mission at the seminar of SOLARIS and participated in a working meeting on the development of a new Read more…
On July 10th, Michał Drahus was an invited speaker during special session Universe@ERC at European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting in Krakow.
Tomasz Kawalec was a speaker at Polish Optical Conference 2023 (PKO’2023). He gave a talk on space optics, discussing the optical system planned for the HYADES mission. The Polish Optical Conference aims to integrate the community of Polish opticians. It creates a platform for meeting and exchanging views for a Read more…
On June 2th, HYADES team members: Michał Dahus, Piotr Guzik and Mikołaj Sabat were invited speakers at the seminar of Polish Space Research Centre (CBK PAN) in Warsaw. We presented the main goals of our project to scientific staff of CBK PAN, also in the context of future cooperation with Read more…
Creotech Instruments S.A. is preparing a detailed mission analysis for the HYADES project. It includes mission scenario planning that meets the criteria of the high-accuracy pointing (less than 30 arcsec in 3 axes) and optimal power-mass budget within a small satellite (CubeSat platform). Creotech Instruments is Poland’s leading manufacturer of Read more…