This year, the most technologically advanced and largest Polish satellite, Eagle Eye, will be launched into Earth orbit. The facility will be part of the European Defence Fund REACTS task to build fast emergency consequence technology.
EagleEye satellite, was developed by the Space investigation Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Creotech Instruments and Scanway. The facility was built on a modular, universal HyperSat platform, which allows you to conduct various types of space missions. At the same time, it is the first satellite designed and built in Poland with a mass of more than 50 kg. Only 8 capital groups in Europe make specified large orbiters, there are respective twelve specified companies worldwide. The device will operate on a very low orbit at an altitude of about 300-350 km, allowing accurate imaging of the Earth.
The breakthrough nature of the EagleEye mission illustrates the fact that the mass of our satellite is comparable to the mass of all respective Polish satellites built from the beginning of national participation in space exploration. EagleEye will weigh more than 50 kg and outside our proprietary HyperSat platform, will besides test the first Polish advanced resolution strategy for imaging the Earth of Scanway and the instrument's computer developed at the Space investigation Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The mission is so of large importance not only for the Creotech, but besides for another consortiums and the full Polish space sector. We open doors to home operators to a fast-growing and profitable marketplace for design, construction, integration and carrying out tiny satellites weighing more than 50 kg – Dr Grzegorz Brona, president of the Management Board of Creotech Instruments S.A.
Currently, the orbiter undergoes final investigating and reviews required by SpaceX, with which the satellite rocket will shortly be integrated. Creotech Instruments is liable for carrying out the full mission, i.e. preparing the HyperSat satellite platform and its components, integrating the satellite and bringing it to Earth orbit in cooperation with ExoLaunch, the SpaceX integration operator. The Polish company is besides expected to supply communication with the satellite erstwhile it is in orbit.
The improvement of the HyperSat satellite platform began in 2017. The modular plan of the platform allows to adapt it to individual requirements in missions of varying application and profile. Over the next fewer years, Creotech Instruments intends to operate satellites with a weight of up to 200 kg. This HyperSat platform was selected, among others, by the German company OHB in the mission of the first investigating of satellites in orbit around the Earth. The Creotech Instruments will besides participate in the European lunar mission, which aims to map Silver Globe's natural resources through a satellite based on HyperSat platform.
The EagleEye task is simply a milestone in the improvement of the Polish space sector and contributes to the increase in the number of jobs in high-tech industry. National capabilities to build advanced civilian and military satellites are consistent with the long-term direction of improvement of the Polish space sector. They besides let to build the constellation Made in Poland and make a nationwide network of companies providing the essential components for the national value chain of satellite construction. HyperSat can service not only optical missions in the future, but besides radar, communication, related to 5G communications and the net of Things, discipline or safety and Defence, as well as related orbital logistics – Dr Grzegorz Brona, president of the Management Board of Creotech Instruments S.A.
The Polish platform is besides to be part of the European Defence Fund REACTS project, which aims to build fast emergency consequence technology. HyperSat is the basis of the national mission of PIAST (Nanosatelic constellation of optoelectronic image designation of PIAST – Polish Imaging Satellites), in which 3 nanosatellites serving the Armed Forces of Poland will be placed in space.
As Creotech Instruments points out, the tiny satellite marketplace (smalsats) reached $30 billion in 2013-2022, and already in the current decade by 2032, is expected to scope $111 billion according to Euroconsult's analytical company data[2]. On average, over 2,600 satellites per year will be orbited during the decade 2023-2032, which translates regular into over 7 tiny satellites. This class of space objects includes, among others, providing satellite net connectivity to Starlink satellites from SpaceX, Planet's OneWeb Earth optical imaging, and the navigation satellites belonging to Spire. tiny satellites are beginning to be utilized for precise reflection of Earth in the field of visible light, as well as infrared light or radar, besides supply global radio communications with ships and aircraft.
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