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Greece
Greek Satellite Hellas Sat-4 Launched into Space (video)
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...
Greece
Sunglint Phenomenon Captured by NASA over the Aegean
On July 6, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of sunglint on the waters around Crete and the Aegean Islands.
The phenomenon of sunglint is a matter of optics. Areas where the...
Greece
Greek Mini Satellite Ready for Launch at Cape Canaveral
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...
Economy
OTE Sells Satellite Unit
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...