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Telescopes & SSA
- Restoration
- Upgrade
- Digitalisation
- Satellite tracking
Ground Systems
Ground stations and telescopes in Greece, installed and run.
NOA · Kryoneri, Corinthia37.972° N · 22.622° E
Scope
Survey · License · Install · Operate · Maintain
- 01
Site survey & design
- Horizon mask
- RF environment
- Power & connectivity
- Civil works
- 02
Licensing & coordination
- ITU filings
- EETT spectrum licences
- Frequency coordination
- Bringing into use
- 03
Installation & commissioning
- Antenna & pedestal
- Feeds, LNAs, down-conversion
- Demodulators
- Acceptance on live passes
- 04
Operations
- Pass scheduling
- Tracking & capture
- Product generation
- Monitoring
- 05
Maintenance
- Preventive
- Corrective
- Spares held locally
- Engineer on call
07
Network presence
- Local branch
- Field engineering
- Operations support
Kryoneri
National Observatory of Athens · Corinthia37.972° N · 22.622° E
X/L-band station
- Owner
- NOA · IAASARS
- Antenna
- 2.4 m, in radome
- Supplier
- eOsphere
- Bands
- X, L
- Missions
- Polar-orbiting DB; Terra / Aqua MODIS to end of mission
- History
- Penteli 2014, relocated to Kryoneri
- Our role
- Installation, operation, maintenance
Safran antenna
- Manufacturer
- Safran
- Reflector
- 6.1 m, auto-aligned
- Bands
- S, X, Ka · dual polarisation
- Transmit
- S-band, EIRP 80 dBW
- Pedestal
- 3-axis, lubrication-free gearboxes
- Wind
- Operates to 90 km/h, gusts to 200 km/h, no radome
- Design life
- 15 years, continuous operation
- Baseband
- High-data-rate and TT&C receivers
- Site
- NOA Kryoneri
- Status
- New installation
Dionysos
National Technical University of Athens · Attica
Baker-Nunn camera
- Owners
- NOA · NTUA
- Site
- NTUA Dionysos
- Instrument
- Baker-Nunn Schmidt satellite tracking camera, 1960s
- Application
- Space situational awareness
- Our role
- Restoration, upgrade, digitalisation
- Period
- 2025 – 2026
Nemea · KSAT Greece
Kongsberg Satellite Services · Corinthia
Optical ground station
- Status
- First commercial optical ground station
- Built with
- Astelco Systems
- Installed
- January 2021
- Aperture
- 0.5 m; design scales to ~1.8 m
- Wavelength
- ~1550 nm · CCSDS O3K, HPE
- Modem
- Work Microwave, up to 3 Gbps
- Pointing
- < 5 arcsec (24 µrad) at 2.5 arcsec seeing
- Clear sky
- Up to 95% in summer
- Missions
- PIXL-1 (Tesat, GomSpace) · Sony CSL SOLISS on ISS, Sep 2021
- Network
- ESA Optical Nucleus Network, with ESA Tenerife and DLR Almería
Greek branch
- Owner
- KSAT
- Site
- Nemea: RF and optical stations
- Our role
- Branch established and supported
- Since
- 2021
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