1. When space geeksWhen space geeks
start a company…start a company…

2. Who are we?
DEAL WITH
IT!

3. some screenshots of our website

4. First succes
• First 1000 articles
• Site becomes known in the local
community

5. IAC – International Astronautical
Congress
• Presence at the IAC 2010 conference in Prague
(one of only three from Poland).

6. Rocket fuel just got spilled!
Getting bigger and
bigger!
5 (or even more!)
articles per day
First
successful
contacts with
the industry
(PL, NL, EST, LI, GR)

7. The commercial side of the force
(Ltd. type company)

8. Important events
 IV Innovation Forum (Rzeszow)
 Space EXPO (Warsaw)
 IAC (Cape Town, Naples)
 SEMWO (Vilnius)
 Space Access (Paris)
 Le Bourget (Paris)
 Galileo Application Congress (Prague)
 NordicBaltsat (Talinn)

9. Commercial Activities
• Helping foreign
companies
entering Poland
• Advisory and
consulting services
• Specialized reports

10. Hevelius Stratospheric Platform
Three conducted missions
to the edge of space

11. /RaceToMars @RaceToMars

12. Social Media and outreach
More than 1500 fans and growing
fast. Can reach thousands
of people.
New idea to use
SpaceUp in Poland.
Digg – like site. Can be used to
reach over 10.000 users
in one day! Mass media
influence!
Here we
are! :)
Contacts to Mass
media and websites;
Gazeta.pl, Wp.pl, Spacedaily,
Hobbyspace and television (ie.
TVN)
Space policy
actions E.g. a
report on political
support to ESA
(downloaded over
10.000 times),
reached political
parties.
Astronautyka.org
Merger with biggest
Polish space forum

13. Poland in ESA campaign
A big success, Poland joined
ESA on November 19th 2012

14. Submitted projects
GALILEO
Masters
finalists
GMES
Masters
finalists
GMES
Masters
finalists
ESA call for outline
proposals under the
Polish industry
incentive scheme
answered!!!
Next step:
regional cooperation!

15. Website nowadays
 5500 articles
 50 000 number of
unique visitors
monthly
 Readers are from
industry and
academic,
professionals and
passionates

16. The FUTURE, folks!
• Regional Kosmonauta.net
concept
• Site in many local
languages, on local
matters
• More visible national
space updates in English
• Acts as a contact form for
regional space projects
• Broadening regional
awareness and
cooperation
• IAC 2013 in Beijing

17. Contact us!
kontakt@kosmonauta.net
Thank you for your attention!
/ Kosmonauta.net @kosmonauta_net
Not for commercial use
speaker: Piotr Lewkowicz
presentation made by Kosmonauta.net

18. And by the
way…
Please vote for
me! 