Greece forging paths into the great beyond

The team from the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) arrived in Thessaloniki ahead of the city's international trade fair (TIF) with a wealth of optimistic news about the progress of space research and science in Greece.

Shortly before his scheduled talk at the Thessaloniki International Fair, Dr Spyros Vasilakos, director of IAASARS and vice president of NOA's board of directors, spoke to Kathimerini about the establishment of a new space hub at the Kryoneri Observatory in the northern Peloponnese, which will be the largest in Southeastern Europe.

IAASARS oversees the country's two largest research telescopes. The first, the Aristarchos Telescope, with a diameter of 2.3 meters, is located at the Helmos Observatory, at the top of Mount Helmos, near Kalavryta, at an altitude...