Thessaloniki: The design of the next generation of Hellas Sat satellites has started
Its design is in progress new generation of satellites, Hellas Sat.and will concern “a large or two medium telecommunication size satellites to be integrated revolutionary technologies».
It is noted that the requirement for data transmission speeds and security in communications is particularly high.
The beginning of the plans to build a new generation of satellites that will be even the information transmission technology with optical laser technology “something innovative in space” presented speaking on the radio station of ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ, “Agency 104.9FM” Mr. Christodoulos Protopapasits CEO “Hellas Sat”.
Mr. Archbishop stated that the decision to launch a new satellite or a twin of new satellites has now been taken for the exclusive orbital position of Greece and Cyprus which is on a geostationary orbit 39 ° East.
Technological leap with laser communications and new speeds
As he explained, the design of the next generation of Hellas Sat has started and either the launch of a large satellite or two medium-sized Hellas Sat 5 and 6.
“They will be satellites with an innovative payload (s.s.” space load ie technological systems that will be in orbit) with optical telecommunications “, clarified its managing director “Hellas Sat” and described that the first cooperation agreement-protocol has already been signed with the German company OHB System AG.
In this way the foundations are laid for a “very innovative, space technology unprecedented space charge” that will allow “the use of laser beams from space at the geostatic position of 39 ° to provide high-speed telecommunications”.
The aim of the effort is to use for the implementation of the new satellite technological solutions and its observatory Χελμού in Greece in cooperation with the Greek government as well as its facilities Hellas Sat. in Kofinou in Cyprus, where special permits have already been received for “the installation of new optical telecommunication nodes for differential telecommunications that will use this technology”.
The leap in the laser age on such satellites translates mainly in speed but also in safety for the next Hellas Sat. “Instead of, for example, the speeds of a current conventional satellite of the order of even 100 Gbs, such a satellite technology that has to manage a few thousand Gbs. With two laser beams that can be connected at speed in two countries, something that will not happen with the well-known ‘dishes-antennas’ but with optical means-telescopes.
We are entering a new generation of telecommunications and, – something important – for national security, is that the communication with a laser through a satellite at 36,000 kilometers, can not at that point be attacked by a hostile energy, nor “hit” with interferences … “, stressed Mr. Protopapas.
EuroQCI, secure communications in the EU with “quantum technology” and cybersecurity
Apart from the satellite technologies department, a new development for the communications sector is, according to Mr. Protopapas, the proposal that has been submitted for a new program that aims to make these telecommunications more secure in the EU in general.
At the same time, we are submitting together with the Cypriot government a proposal for a program European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI), a program through which the so-called “key quantum”, technologies for secure telecommunications in the EU will be distributed and we are in communication. and with the Greek government for the exact same program “.
Referring to this development, Mr. Protopapas underlined the excellent cooperation that exists between the people of Hellas Sat and the Greek government in state-of-the-art technology programs of ESA (European Space Agency) “… through which it also happens “High-level jobs will be created in Greece in the coming years.”
In the same scientific field of cybersecurity – “key object for reasons in Greece in the near future” – Mr. Protopapas added that Hellas Sat has signed another high-tech agreement with a Belgian company, which hosts the Center’s Cybersecurity of. The ESA that upgrades “of strategic importance in cybersecurity” Greece.
As explained in the coming weeks, it will be proposed “to establish a Cyber Security Center in Greece now, with the care of Hellas Sat”. It is an important project that can provide “a number of jobs for scientists in this field” in the country and it is a cybersecurity center that can provide the specific, in high demand, services “not only in satellite communications but also in terrestrial and any other type of secure telecommunications … “, as explained by the managing director of” Hellas Sat “.
And the … Moon as a new frontier of communication
The new era with the above communication technologies, however, aims to “touch” in a new way Greece and the new space adventures of Man on the Moon.
“With this technology optical-laser communication we seek and something new: providing with them Hellas Sat. satellites and a fast communications facility connecting the upcoming new International Space Station to orbit Moonof the Gateway! “, adds Mr.Archbishop referring to non-terrestrial, telecommunications applications aimed at meeting young people laser- satellites.
“It simply came to our notice then. It’s a project we’re talking about European Space Agency through a series of collaborations we have started, to use this space station, from which every 26 months it will be possible in the future an easier journey for planet Marsand him / them Hellas Sat. for his communications with the Earth … “, concludes o Mr. Protopapas.