SpaceX Successfully Launches Three Greek Nanosatellites

The Greek nanosatellites are present orbiting the Earth. Credit: NASA

In a historical measurement for Greece’s abstraction program, 3 Greek-made nanosatellites were successfully launched into abstraction connected Monday. The satellites were carried by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the United States, with the motorboat and the rocket’s palmy upright landing broadcast unrecorded to a planetary audience.

Developed by the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology astatine the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), the 3 ERMIS satellites are present entering a Low Earth Orbit astatine an altitude of astir 500 km.

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The ERMIS mission: A caller epoch for Greek tech

The ERMIS Hellenic Cubesat Demonstration Mission is designed to validate cutting-edge, homegrown technologies. Key objectives of the ngo include:

• 5G & IoT Connectivity: Testing satellite-based 5G communications for the Internet of Things.
• Hyperspectral Imaging: Utilizing high-precision cameras (5m resolution) for nationalist interests, specified arsenic astute agriculture.
• Inter-satellite Links: Developing the quality for satellites to pass straight with 1 different successful orbit.
• Laser Communications: Establishing a ground-breaking optical nexus with the Helmos Ground Station successful Greece.

Greece’s €200 cardinal National Microsatellite Program

The ERMIS task serves arsenic the flagship for Greece’s €200 cardinal National Microsatellite Program, funded by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (NextGenerationEU). While the task is coordinated by NKUA, it represents a monolithic collaborative effort involving OQ Hellas, the University of Patras, the University of the Aegean, and the National Observatory of Athens.

The ngo is being overseen by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the strategical enactment of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance.

The ngo volition certify respective “Made successful Greece” innovations for the archetypal time, including:

• Hardware Acceleration: On-board representation processing utilizing precocious hardware accelerators for information compression.
• Space Standards: Implementation of CCSDS optical transmission coding.
• Autonomous Control: Advanced algorithms for high-precision outer positioning and cognition control.

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