“A golden era of space exploration is underway, and Poland must not be absent from it.” NASA Chief visits Poland.
Bill Nelson, the head of NASA, visited Poland. The meeting with representatives of the Polish space industry aimed to discuss further prospects of international collaboration on upcoming projects. Among the attendees was Maciej Bzowski, the head of the GLOWS experiment, which has been collaborating with NASA for many years. Scientists and engineers from the Space […]
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IBEX is back online
The NASA IMAP mission (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), which involves the team from the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences preparing their own experiment and research instrument called GLOWS (Global solar Wind Structure), would not have been possible without another heliospheric mission – IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer). Our involvement in the […]
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NASA’s IMAP Mission Successfully Completes Critical Design Review
At the end of January of this year, the IMAP mission successfully passed its Critical Design Review. The mission management received the green light to build the flight version of all systems. This is a huge success for the entire engineering and research team. More details can be found in the official communication available here.
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GLOWS first light! The instrument is being prepared for a mission NASA IMAP
The Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences is working on the GLOWS instrument.Construction of the engineering model has already been completed and testing is underway favorably. “GLOWS saw the first light,” says Professor Maciej Bzowski, head of the group working on the instrument and the experiment GLOWS. The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration […]
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Kosmos is an Eldorado for Polish science – an article in “Puls Biznesu”
The Polish Academy of Sciences and NASA have been partners for many years. They conduct joint research and experiments. The Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences is working on the construction of a GLOWS photometer for IMAP space mission, Institute of Nuclear Physics Henryk Niewodniczański PAN takes participation in an experiment that […]
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GLOWS Critical Design Rewiev Passed!
End of August was very busy for all GLOWS team. We have hosted iCDR (Critical Design Review) in CBK PAN in Warsaw. Progress of our instrument development has been evaluated by a review team from the US. After 2-days of very detailed presentations, we can start building flight model! More details here [polish]
Read moreGLOWS Peer Review
Work on the GLOWS instrument, i.e. a photometer designed and built at CBK PAN as a part of IMAP heliospheric mission, they are moving forward. In mid May there will be the so-called Peer Review, i.e. a review before the Critical Design Review for the GLOWS instrument. In connection with the review, we will be […]
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Student’s project for GLOWS finished!
During the last term we had the pleasure to work with a group of astronomy students from University of Warsaw. Their task was to analyze the spectra of a few stars that will be used in future to calibrate measured data from our photometer. The results of their work is presented in the report available […]
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New model of the solar wind now published!
“A new 3D solar wind speed and density model based on interplanetary scintillation” by C. Porowski, M. Bzowski and M. Tokumaru has been published in the latest issue of one of the most prestigious scientific journals, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
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New paper of the GLOWS team members in now available.
In the “The Astrophisical Journal”, one of the most important international journals onastronomy, astrophysics and spectroscopy, the article “Absorption of Ly α radiation in theheliosphere” by Dr. Izabela Kowalska-Leszczyńska, Dr. Marzena Kubiak and Dr. hab. Maciej Bzowski. In this paper, they develop a method to estimate the magnitude of absorption of solar Lyαradiation inside the […]
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