{"id":160080,"date":"2025-11-29T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160080\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:15:07","slug":"greece-joins-space-nations-with-launch-of-five-microsatellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160080\/","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\/nz\/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":160081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7355,111,139,69,147,2935,392,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-160080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-in-depth","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-society","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}