The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) has opened a new Space Observation Center in Bezmiechowa, on top of the mountain where the Academic Gliding Center of the Rzeszów University of Technology operates. From there it will monitor satellites orbiting the Earth. 

The observatory is located at an altitude of 615 meters. Construction took a year. It was built thanks to an agreement between POLSA and Rzeszów University of Technology in 2022. Construction was financed by a targeted grant from the Ministry of Development and Technology. 

Opened on October 3, the center is an astronomical observatory designed to conduct observations of space, artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, as well as support teaching and training processes. The center will perform operational tasks and be used for testing space observation instruments, as well as for training university students in space security. 

The observatory project includes four separate observation stations for robotic telescopes. The first stage of construction, to be implemented in 2023-2024, envisages the installation of four optical instruments, including two Optical Fence triangulation system stations, as well as wide- and narrow-angle optical station, that are part of the ASOPEK Automated System for Optical Observation and Tracking of Objects in Space (SSA_PL). 

The center is one of the POLSA observatories deployed around the world, performing tasks within the framework of the international Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Partnership for building national and global Space Situational Awareness (SSA). The SST Partnership currently brings together 15 European countries.