On Thursday Kosiniak-Kamish participated in the authoritative beginning of the Centre for the Management of Satellite Missions.
Today's opening, the launch of the Satellite Mission Control Centre is 1 of the key moments in acquiring the ability to observe, influence, including security said the head of the MON.
Kosiniak-Kamysz reported that Poland is implementing 4 satellite programs: GLOB, microGLOB, microSAR and PIAST, which aim to bring into orbit devices of varying size and use. The first Polish satellites are scheduled to be orbited in November of this year.
He besides recalled the agreement concluded in May between the Armed Forces Agency and a consortium composed of ICEYE and Military Communications Plant No. 1 SA. This agreement concerns the acquisition of 3 monochrome satellites, enabling reflection regardless of the time of day.
Safety above all
The Deputy Prime Minister stressed that Poland must overtake others to guarantee its safety. – This cannot be done by looking at the Polish army, the Polish army, only through the prism of great, good experiences of history. dense equipment, tanks, airplanes — all this is very necessary, but we are well aware that the safe future of Poland is in modern technologies: cyberspace, space, artificial intelligence and drones – he said.
Thanks to the launch of the Satellite Mission Control Center, the Military method Academy has obtained the position of the only institution in the country with both method facilities and cognition needed to carry out satellite operations independently and to train future operators of specified systems.
PIAST Project
The Center for the Control of Satellite Missions at the Military method Academy is the state-of-the-art facility in Poland for conducting and supervising satellite missions. It is equipped, among others, with a Legion400 broadcasting and receiving antenna, an operating centre with operator stations and specialized software for communications, monitoring and planning of satellite operations. Thanks to the launch of the WAT facility, it became the only institution in the country with full facilities for independent satellite management and training of future operators.
The facility besides plays an crucial function in the implementation of the PIAST (Polish ImAging Satellites) task assumes the creation of a constellation of 3 nanosatelites intended for optoelectronic imaging. They are based on the HyperSat platform developed by Creotech Instruments. This initiative is intended to supply the Polish Armed Forces with the first, full Polish satellites forming part of the national Earth reflection system.
