January 2020

On 18 November 2019 a delegation from CSU has signed a convention to launch

POLAR-2 on board of the Chinese space station with the university of Geneva.

POLAR-2 signing ceremony in unige

June 2019

We just received a letter from UN Office for Outer Space Affairs saying:

I am pleased to inform you and your team that, after a thorough review and comprehensive selection process, your proposal, titled “POLAR-2: Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry on the China Space Station”, in response to the first Announcement of Opportunity inviting space experiments on board the China Space Station (CSS) under the United Nations/China Cooperation on the Utilization of the CSS initiative, has been selected for implementation.

See this youtube video around minute 6