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Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A., OTE Group is the largest technology company in Greece. It is one of the three largest companies listed in the Athens Stock Exchange, according to market capitalization.
A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiples of 10 cm × 10 cm × 11.35 cm cubic units. CubeSats have a mass of no more than 1.33 kilograms (2.9 lb) per unit, and often use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components for their electronics and structure. CubeSats are commonly put in orbit by deployers on the International Space Station, or launched as secondary payloads on a launch vehicle. More than 1200 CubeSats have been launched as of January 2020. More than 1100 have been successfully deployed in orbit and more than 80 have been destroyed in launch failures.
NOVA Cyprus is a Cypriot digital satellite pay television service owned by Multichoice Cyprus. NOVA launched in July 2004 and was the first DTH satellite provider to launch in Cyprus.
Astrium was an aerospace manufacturer subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) that provided civil and military space systems and services from 2006 to 2013. In 2012, Astrium had a turnover of €5.8 billion and 18,000 employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands. Astrium was a member of Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies.
ChinaSat is the brand name of communications satellites operated by China Satellite Communications.
The Internet in Greece relied on PSTN/ISDN modem dial-up from 1990 until 2003, when ADSL was commercially launched by incumbent operator OTE. ADSL2+, VDSL2 and GPON are currently the main broadband standards. Greece also has 3G and 4G+ mobile broadband (HSPA) and a more expensive Satellite Internet access. Greece has an extensive fiber optic network throughout the country.
The A2100 is a communications satellite spacecraft model made by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the 1990s-2010s for telecommunications in geosynchronous orbit, as well as GOES-R weather satellites and GPS Block IIIA satellites.
DFS-Kopernikus was the name of three geostationary satellites of Deutsche Bundespost and later Deutsche Telekom AG. They are no longer in use.
Sino Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. known also as SinoSat is a Chinese company.
Hellas Sat Consortium Ltd is the owner and a wholesaler of capacity and services of the Greek/Cypriot Hellas Sat 2 satellite, an Astrium Eurostar E2000+, which was launched successfully on 13 May 2003 to the 39th eastern meridian orbital position in the geostationary satellite orbit. On 29 June 2017 the Hellas Sat 3 was launched successfully to replace Hellas Sat 2.
ANT1 Europe is a free satellite TV channel established in 2006. The channel is partly owned by ANT1 Greece. It is a general entertainment channel screening international, Greek and Cypriot produced programs. It broadcasts from the satellite Hellas Sat 2.
SkySat is a constellation of sub-meter resolution Earth observation satellites owned by Planet Labs, providing imagery, high-definition video and analytics services. Planet acquired the satellites with their purchase of Terra Bella, a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2009 by Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu, from Google in 2017.
Planet Labs, Inc. is an American private Earth imaging company based in San Francisco, CA. Their goal is to image the entirety of the planet daily to monitor changes and pinpoint trends. The company designs and manufactures Triple-CubeSat miniature satellites called Doves that are then delivered into orbit as secondary payloads on other rocket launch missions. Each Dove is equipped with a high-powered telescope and camera programmed to capture different swaths of Earth. Each Dove Earth observation satellite continuously scans Earth, sending data once it passes over a ground station. Together, Doves form the largest satellite constellation in the world that provides a complete image of Earth once per day at 3–5 m optical resolution. This is accomplished through a technique called a line scan, which allows for continuous, high resolution imagery due to the fact that this type of camera is not restricted to specific vertical resolution.
DFS-Kopernikus 3 was a communications satellite operated by Deutsche Telekom.
GiSAT-1 is a high-throughput geostationary communications satellite project by Global IP Cayman. It was to be designed and manufactured by Boeing on the Boeing-702MP platform. It is intended to serve 35 Sub-Saharan countries on the Ka band and offer over 150 Gbit/s of bandwidth with a flexible digital payload. It was expected to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2018, but the cancellation of the construction contract by Boeing in December 2018 left the launch of the satellite uncertain.
Hellas Sat 2 is a communications satellite operated by Hellas Sat. On 29 June 2017 the Hellas Sat 3 satellite was launched to replace the Hellas Sat 2.
SaudiGeoSat 1/HellasSat 4, also known as HellasSat 4/SaudiGeoSat 1, is a Saudi and Greek geosynchronous communication satellite of KACST and Hellas Sat. It was built by Lockheed Martin and was launched on 5 February 2019 on board Ariane flight VA247.
Arabsat-6A is a Lockheed Martin-built communications satellite operated by Arabsat and owned by The Arab League. The satellite was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy on April 11, 2019 at 6:35 pm EDT and was released into orbit at 7:09 pm EDT.
Ariane flight VA247 is an Ariane 5 space launch of two geosynchronous satellites that took place on 5 February 2019.
GSAT-31 is a high-throughput telecommunication satellite developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
