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Greece now has its own eyes in space. The five Greek satellites, launched at the end of November last year, are now in orbit around the Earth, within the framework of the "National Microsatellite Program" and have already begun to produce work. Because, for Greece, space is no longer... a joke, as it was in the past.

The assessment that Greece needs to strengthen the competitive advantage that it has begun to "build" in the field of optical satellite communications, taking action not only in terms of university research, but also in the creation of a business ecosystem, is expressed in an interview to the Athenian/Macedonian News Agency, by Polyzois Kokkonis, Future Programs Officer at the European Space Agency (ESA). "Optical satellite communications will develop strongly in the future. They become more important, because they offer very good possibilities for communication in Space" says Mr. Kokkonis and notes that Greece, in collaboration with ESA, was one of the first countries, through the ground station of the "Skylight" program at the Observatory of Helmos, made an optical link with a satellite.

For the second time, the non-profit organization "Libre Space Foundation" is "visiting" space, through the two Greek pico-satellites QUBIK-3 and QUBIK-4, as well as their release system, PICOBUS, which were manufactured in Greece and put into orbit with flight of Firefly Aerospace's Alpha Flight 2 rocket.