{"id":20022,"date":"2026-08-05T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/20022\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:42:08","slug":"european-space-agency-picks-warsaw-for-landmark-new-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/20022\/","title":{"rendered":"European Space Agency picks Warsaw for landmark new center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#13;<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/articles-2026-08-05-16-31-40-559.jpg\" class=\"cus-default-img figure-img img-fluid\" alt=\"European Space Agency picks Warsaw for landmark new center\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n Prime Minister Donald Tusk (R), Minister of Finance and Economy Andrzej Doma\u0144ski (L), and director general of the European Space Agency Josef Aschbacher (C) en route to a press conference on Monday, July 13, at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. The meeting concerned the announcement of the ESA Centre&#8217;s location in Poland. PAP\/Leszek Szyma\u0144ski&#13;<\/p>\n<p>PAP: The European Space Agency has selected Warsaw to host its newest center, making the Polish capital the first city outside the agency&#8217;s founding member states to house one of its flagship facilities.<br \/>The center will specialize in space security, orbital and ground system resilience, and dual-use technologies, reinforcing Poland&#8217;s growing role in Europe&#8217;s space industry while expanding ESA&#8217;s presence in Central and Eastern Europe.<br \/>Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the decision alongside Finance and Economy Minister Andrzej Doma\u0144ski and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher during a press conference at Warsaw&#8217;s Copernicus Science Centre.<br \/>The facility will develop technologies for both civilian and defense applications, reflecting Europe&#8217;s growing emphasis on protecting critical space infrastructure, strengthening satellite resilience and responding to emerging security threats.<br \/>Its mission will extend beyond Poland, supporting capabilities that benefit ESA member states across Europe.<br \/>Founded in 1975, the European Space Agency coordinates Europe&#8217;s civilian space program through a network of specialist centers covering spacecraft engineering, mission control, Earth observation, astronaut training and scientific research.<br \/>The Warsaw facility will complement those centers by leading work on security and resilience technologies.<br \/>Warsaw will join an elite group of cities \u2013 including Paris, Noordwijk, Darmstadt, Cologne and Madrid \u2013 that host ESA&#8217;s major centers, underscoring Poland&#8217;s growing importance in Europe&#8217;s space ecosystem.<br \/>Poland became a full ESA member in 2012, and securing one of the agency&#8217;s flagship centers marks a significant milestone for the country&#8217;s expanding space sector.<br \/>PAP &#8211; www.scienceinpoland.pl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Prime Minister Donald Tusk (R), Minister of Finance and Economy Andrzej Doma\u0144ski (L), and director general&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10312,250,10311,10308,221,4080,101,10307,9,10306,10310,640,10309,192,45],"class_list":["post-20022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-buffalo","tag-culture","tag-genealogy","tag-heritage","tag-history","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-pol-am","tag-poland","tag-polish-american","tag-polka","tag-polonia","tag-recipes","tag-sports","tag-warsaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}