Hellas Sat is a satellite operator and service provider offering telecommunications, video, broadband, and data services across Europe, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. They own and operate a fleet of geostationary satellites and telecommunication centers in Greece and Cyprus. As part of Arabsat since 2013, Hellas Sat partners with companies like Thales Alenia Space and provides services to governments, defense agencies, and other international clients. Key services include DTH transmissions, IP-based services, and secure satellite communications.
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SGS-1 is a joint venture between Neo Space Group and Hellas Sat.
The secure communications services provided to Cyprus utilised capacity from a Greek governmental satellite operated by Hellas Sat.
Thales Alenia Space will supply the SOLiS system and the optical payload for Hellas Sat 5.
Safran will supply the pilot ground station at Hellas Sat’s CyOGS teleport in Cyprus.
Hellas Sat 5 is a geostationary telecommunications satellite.
The pilot ground station at Hellas Sat’s CyOGS teleport will communicate with CNES’s FROGS station at the Côte d’Azur Observatory on France’s Mediterranean coast.
CNES, Hellas Sat, Thales Alenia Space, and Safran signed an agreement to develop a new-generation optical communications system and its associated ground station.
Cyprus, France, and Greece signed a framework agreement to integrate an optical communications system on the future Hellas Sat 5 satellite.
The Cyprus presidency of the European Union (until June) served as the political framework for the agreement on the Hellas Sat 5 optical communications project.
Safran will provide the prototype optical ground station for the Hellas Sat 5 project.
The framework agreement for Hellas Sat 5 was subscribed by operator Hellas Sat, the French space agency CNES, Thales Alenia Space, and Safran.
Christodoulos Protopapas is the CEO of Hellas Sat and supports the view that the cooperation reinforces Hellas Sat’s position as a strategic European operator and strengthens resilience of governmental communications for Greece and Cyprus.
The project includes deployment of a pilot optical ground station at the Hellas Sat teleport in Cyprus that will operate alongside CNES’s Frogs station in France.
Geostationary satellites like Hellas Sat 5 are suited to provide continuous coverage and serve as backup to terrestrial and submarine fiber-optic networks.
Thales Alenia Space developed the Solis optical payload for Hellas Sat 5 under the France 2030 program.
The Hellas Sat 5 optical communications project is intended to offer data transfer speeds near one terabit per second.
Thales Alenia Space will supply the optical payload for the Hellas Sat 5 project.
Thales Alenia Space will provide the SOLiS system and the optical payload onboard the geostationary telecommunications satellite Hellas Sat 5.
Hellas Sat 5 is a geostationary telecommunications satellite intended to host an optical communications payload.
Hellas Sat, CNES, Thales Alenia Space and Safran signed a framework cooperation agreement to develop a next-generation optical communications system for the geostationary telecommunications satellite Hellas Sat 5 and a corresponding ground optical station to be installed in Cyprus.