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The Greek Ministry of Digital Governance has announced a National Microsatellite Program which aims to strengthen the country's off-planet capabilities in low Earth orbit.

The ministry has put forth an open competition on the international market for the development of CubeSats, known as miniaturized satellites, with a budget of €60 million from a total of €130 million.

As part of NASA's Psyche mission, researchers from the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) have created a 300-million-kilometer-long communication "bridge" in space. 

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago.

The development program by universities and businesses for the launch of 12 nanosatellites (CubeSats) with innovative functions in communications and Earth observation is reportedly in the final planning phase.

Scientists on Nov. 7 unveiled the first pictures taken by the European space telescope Euclid, a shimmering and stunning collection of galaxies too numerous to count.

The photos were revealed by the European Space Agency, four months after the telescope launched from Cape Canaveral.

Europe's top space official has urged wavering politicians not to abandon European leadership in combating climate change, saying record heatwaves and vegetation fires provide "really alarming" evidence of the pace of global warming.

A delegation of the European Space Agency (ESA) visiting Slovenia ahead of the vote on the country's full membership of the organisation has commended the country on the progress made since becoming an associate member in 2016.

For Slovenia to be admitted to the ESA as a full-fledged member in the December 2024 vote, a consensus of all of the agency's members will be needed.

The heat wave threatens human health and makes the terrain suitable for fires.
Last week's heat wave named Kerber is followed by a new one that Italian forecasters named Charon, after the ferryman of Hades from Greek mythology who transports souls to the underworld.

More temperature records were expected to tumble on Tuesday as Europe awaited the peak of a punishing heatwave and wildfires scorched swathes of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing the evacuation of 1,200 children close to a Greek seaside resort.

Scorching heat across the Northern Hemisphere threatened to break records and whip up wildfires on Monday as the dire consequences of global warming take shape.

Parts of Europe, Asia and North America were preparing for historic heat with health warnings and evacuations.