President of the Polish Space Agency dismissed from the position

There is a big change in the Polish Space Agency. The Ministry of Development said that President Grzegorz Wrochna was dismissed.

What’s going on: On Tuesday, March 11, the Minister of Development and Technology Krzysztof Paszyk dismissed Grzegorz Wrochna from the position of the president of the Polish Space Agency Poland. – the cause (…) are irregularities in performing tasks related to the management of the agency – spokeswoman of the ministry MaƂgorzata Childiak said the Polish press agency. She explained that “lasts Considering candidates for the new head of Polsa“.

Who was Grzegorz Wrochna? He was the president from 2021and in the years 2019-2020 he was Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In the years 2017-2018 he was the chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee, he also represented Poland in the EURATOM program committees, the Nuclear Energy Agency OECD committees and the Supervisory Board of the EU Joint Research Center.

ANDPlay with Falcon 9: On February 20, 2025, Grzegorz Wrochna stayed urgently summoned to the ministrythat he would explain the incident with the Falcon 9 Rocket from SpaceX Elona Muska. The remains fell, among others, in Greater Poland. After the fact, it turned out that Polsa sent a warning earlier, but to the e-mail of the Ministry of National Defense, an outdated e-mail for half a year. On Wednesday, March 5, Krzysztof Paszyk reported that this could end in a personnel decision.

The remains of the SpaceX rocket and hacker attack: In February, the remains of Falcon 9 rocket were found in Poland, and SpaceX assured that The objects do not have radioactive properties and do not threaten people. Moreover, on March 2, the Minister of Digitization Krzysztof Gawkowski confirmed that the services responsible for cyber security were detected Unauthorized access to the ICT infrastructure of the Polish Space Agency.

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Source: Gazeta

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