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 Read more
Four members of the HYADES team will begin their doctoral studies at Jagiellonian University in October. In this year’s admissions cycle, three of our colleagues were accepted into the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences in the field of astronomy, and one person will begin a doctoral program in Read more
On 2 August 2026 Szymon Ryszkowski gave a presentation titled “Tracing Water in Comets: Modeling OH, H, and Deuterium in the Hydrogen and Deuterium Survey Mission” at the International Conference of Physics Students (ICPS) in Rabat, Morocco. ICPS is an international conference for physics students organized annually by the International Read more
On November 21, we visited the Copernicus Festival: Campus. In four thematic zones, visitors could immerse themselves in both the microscopic structures of matter and questions about the future of space exploration. Representatives of HYADES were also among the panelists. Tomasz Kawalec led a practical workshop entitled “Listening to Satellites” Read more
On November 5, 2025, the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre was visited by Dr. Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA astronaut, as part of the nationwide IGNIS mission tour. The visit took place during an ongoing SOLARIS experimental session focused on the characterization of a prototype absorption filter developed within the HYADES project. Read more
On November 4, we had the opportunity to participate in the Space for Everyone event, at the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University — a meeting with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA astronaut and participant in the IGNIS mission. The meeting featured a panel discussion entitled “Has the fire been lit? The Read more
On October 21 a lecture was held as part of “Bliżej Nauki” (Closer to Science), a series of popular science lectures organized at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. During the lecture, Michał Drahus, head of the HYADES mission, presented the Read more
Is life on Mars possible? What does it feel like to sit on the tip of a loaded rocket? What does Jeffrey Hoffman think about private space missions and what does NASA think about it? These and other questions dominated the post-lecture debate at the Breath of Mars and Space Read more