15.06.2015 Space Technology Week in the Polish Pavilion at the World Exposition EXPO 2015

The Space Technology Week starts today at the World Exposition EXPO 2015. For the coming week, the organiser – the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development – plans a series of business and promotional events related to the Polish space sector. The exhibits presented in the Polish Pavilion will refer to the leading theme of the exhibition, i.e. ”Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.

– The Space Technology Week during the World Expo dedicated to food and nutrition may seem a little surprising. However, the space sector is of real significance for streamlining the solutions used
in the agri-food industry. Space technologies and satellite techniques have numerous practical applications in various aspects of agricultural activity, including projecting, monitoring and determining the scope of damage to crops. Innovative and creative Polish entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to present their achievements  and to establish business relations with partners from Italy to implement joint projects in the space sector, says Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak, President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development.

– The Space Technology Week at the EXPO in Milan is a good opportunity to highlight the very good Polish-Italian cooperation in the field of space technologies. Already three months after accession to the ESA,
in November 2012 we paid a first visit to Italy to enhance cooperation between our companies from the space sector. The good prospects for our further relations will be ensured also by the Agreement on Cooperation between the Polish Space Agency and its Italian counterpart ASI, which is to be signed in the coming days. I hope that soon I will be able to provide more examples of successful Polish-Italian cooperation that started with the participation of our companies  in the consortium building an advanced telescope under the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, adds Otylia Trzaskalska-Stroińska, Deputy Director of the Department of Innovation and Industry at the Ministry of Economy and the head of the Polish delegation to the ESA.

The partners of the exposition, which will open soon in the Polish Pavilion, include the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements and Polish enterprises from the space sector.

The Space Technology Week will include i.a. a seminar on Earth observation, attended by experts from the European Space Agency, as well as a Polish-Italian conference on economic cooperation in the space sector, which is to be attended by the representatives of the Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of Economy, representatives of the Parliamentary Group for Space, representatives of the Italian Space Agency, as well as entrepreneurs from Poland and Italy.

Exposition in the Polish Pavilion

The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences will present i.a. a model of the Polish satellite BRITE, which is the Polish contribution to the BRITE programme, created by the Canadian-Austrian-Polish consortium and is used for observation of the brightest stars in our galaxy. The visitors will have an opportunity to see the “real” nanosatellite orbiting around the Earth. A model of CHOMIK, which will also be presented at the expo, is a unique geological penetrator for the Phobos-Soil space mission the main objective of which was to collect a sample from the surface of a Mars’ moon Phobos. The model of MUPUS, i.e. multifunctional robot that we will also have an opportunity to see in Milan, took part in one of the most famous space missions – Rosetta.

The exposition will also include a fibre-optic model (made by InphoTech) whose elements may be used for work in space, i.a. to strengthen the signal in telecommunications satellites. The “Space is More” design group will present a 3d model of habitat on Mars which could be used by people arriving at the planet. The model will allow to see how the first communities on Mars will function in future.

The exposition will involve the presentation of possible uses of a mobile robot, developed by the Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, for inspection and pyrotechnical tasks. Mobile robots are direct predecessors of Mars rovers and due to similarities in construction may be used  to present the actions of Mars rovers in outer space. Mobile robots are currently used mainly to save human life and health. The robot will be presented on the stage in front of the Polish Pavilion in the form of interesting shows, runs on obstacle courses or down the ramp and many others.

The situations and cases when solutions from the space sector facilitate agricultural activity will be presented in a multimedia educational game “Expolandia – space for life” which will provide the visitors with an opportunity to test themselves as farmers. The multimedia game refers to the leading team of EXPO, presenting the benefits from using space technologies in modern agriculture.

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