Greece

A series of new Greek satellites from the company Hellas Sat will feature cutting-edge technology that may increase the country's internet speeds, according to the company's CEO. Hellas Sat CEO Christodoulos Protopapas stated to AMNA that the satellites, which will...

Scientists from Greece and the UK developed a new technique to detect patches of floating plastic in the marine environment using satellites. Writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists say that the new method to prevent and reverse sea...

Satellite images of Kineta, the town in Attica which has suffered so greatly from extensive flooding since Monday, depict the extent of the catastrophe that struck the area. The images come from the European Sentinel-2 satellite, part of the European Union's...

The Archelon group, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, has recently launched an innovative way to protect the endangered sea turtles in Greece by using satellite tags. On the 1st of June this year, satellite tags were placed on...

The atmosphere around Athens on Wednesday was full of sand and dust blown in from North Africa, leaving the skies over Attica cloudy, and visibility limited. Dust clouds containing fine sand have been blown over parts of southern and central...

The European rocket Ariane 5 launched the new "Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat" telecommunications satellite into space on Tuesday from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Weighing 6,495 kg (14,319 pounds), the new satellite will provide telecommunications capabilities, including television, Internet, telephone and secure communications, in...

Researchers from the University of the Aegean have developed an innovative experiment off the coast of Lesvos to tackle one of the biggest environmental challenges: the fight against plastic pollution. The team has developed a system that can search, find...

The new Hellas-Sat was completed and was already sent to California, USA, from Lockheed Martin premises for environmental testing before it is sent to the site where it will be launched into space in 2018. "Everything is going well and...

The Greek and Cypriot telecommunications satellite Hellas Sat 3 was launched into orbit late Wednesday night from French Guiana, according to the digital policy ministry. Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Information Minister Nikos Pappas, who watched the launch from the Arianespace...

The Greek-Cypriot telecommunication satellite Hellas Sat 3/Inmarsat S EAN is ready to be launched into space on-board the Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket at midnight (Greek time) on Wednesday (June 28) from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Hellas Sat 3,...

Two microsatellites, UPSat and DUTHSat, constructed in Greece were launched into space on Tuesday, at 18:11 Athens time -- along with 26 other similar microsatellites -- from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The microsatellites...

The Laboratory of Electromagnetic Theory of the Democritus University of Thrace / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been selected to join the QB50 European initiative for the launch of a swarm of nano-satellites to investigate the upper...

A team of high school students from the Greek island of Crete participated in the Cansat European competition earning an award for building a satellite. Cansat is a competition organized by the European Space Agency,  in collaboration with the Norwegian Space Training...

Greece΄s biggest telecoms operator OTE said on Thursday it agreed to sell its satellite unit Hellas SAT to Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat for 208 million euros as part of measures to cut its debt. OTE, managed and partly-owned by Germany΄s Deutsche...

The Greek Armed Forces will receive satellite phone service from a Turkish company, Globalstar Avrasya, which also provides service to 30 other countries. The Globalstar satellite phones are regarded as one of the most secure communication tools, as this equipment...