Space Research Centre activities comprise the designing, preparation and realization of space experiments in the context of international cooperation,the processing and interpretation of results and constructing scientific instrumentation, as well as running of satellite observations, solar/ionospheric observations and forecasting services and carrying out theoretical researches in the fields:
Solar System and extraterrestrial environment physics, geodynamics, satellite geodesy and physical background for remote sensing.
Space Research Centre consists of the following Departments:
- Space Physics Department;
- Solar Physics Department (Wroclaw);
- Space Technology Department;
- Celestial Mechanics Department;
- Planetary Geodesy Department (with Astronomical Latitude
- Observatory in Borowiec near Poznan);
- Earth Rotation Group;
- Remote Sensing Department.
Space Research Centre also prossesses library, technical section, editorial office and necessary administrative staff.
At the end of 1998 the Space Research Centre total staff is 138 people, of whom 47 are research workers (20 of them professors and associate professors) and around 50 are technicians and engineers.
Short description of the Space Research Centre activities in the last 20 years is given below,
(Annual Report 1998) (Annual Report 1997) In 1988 the Scientific Council of the Space Research Center has 40 members,
(Annual Report 1998) (Annual Report 1997) Space Research Centre publishes yearly the Annual Report in which reports on scientific acticities in a considered year is given.
(Annual Report 1998) (Annual Report 1997)