{"id":159603,"date":"2025-11-29T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/159603\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:23:07","slug":"greece-joins-space-nations-with-launch-of-five-microsatellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/159603\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece joins space nations with launch of five microsatellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Microsatellite_Shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"Greece joins space nations with launch of five microsatellites\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Microsatellite_Shutterstock-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Shutterstock]<\/p>\n<p>Five Greek satellites have launched from California\u2019s Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket, marking a milestone in Greece\u2019s National Microsatellite Program.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment includes two operational ICEYE radar satellites providing round-the-clock Earth observation data for civil protection and national security. Three experimental satellites \u2013 two PHASMA units and one MICE-1 \u2013 will test secure connectivity and Internet of Things applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreece\u2019s presence in space is now reality,\u201d Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou said about Friday\u2019s launch, adding that it puts the country in a position to \u201cacquire our own data from space for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program is funded through the Recovery and Resilience Fund with European Space Agency support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Shutterstock] Five Greek satellites have launched from California\u2019s Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket, marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,12401,46,141,5087,145,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-159603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-in-depth","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-society","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}