The design of the new generation of Hellas Sat telecommunications satellites have begun and the new versions will incorporate “revolutionary technologies, satisfying the much higher demands for data transmission speeds and security in communications,” Hellas Sat CEO Christodoulos Protopapas said on Saturday, in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency’s Thessaloniki-based radio station ‘Praktoreio 104.9 FM’.
He said that this will include the use of laser optics, “something groundbreaking for the sector”, and that the decision has already been made to launch either one large or two medium-sized new satellites into the orbital position occupied by Greece and Cyprus (39th eastern meridian in the geostationary satellite orbit).
According to Protopapas, Hellas Sat 5 and 6 will be “satellites with an innovative payload using optical telecommunications”, adding that a first cooperation protocol with the German firm OHB System AG has been signed, laying the foundations for a very innovative system for space technology, that will use laser beams from geostationary orbit to provide high-speed telecommunication links.
There will also be an effort to use the Helmos Observatory in Greece to implement the new satellite technology solutions, in collaboration with the Greek government and the Hellas Sat installations in Cyprus, where special permits have already been received for the installation of new optical telecommunications hubs for satellite communication using this technology.
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