Satellite imagery

The countdown has started for the 13 Greek cube satellites, known as microsatellites, to go into orbit. They will be built by a total of seven joint ventures of Greek companies and academic institutions by 2024.

Türkiye's first domestically produced observation satellite İMECE will be launched into space on April 11, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced.

"We will continue to exist in the global space race thanks to our trained human resources, the opportunities we provide and the technologies we have developed," the president said on his Twitter account.

The Ljubljana-based geographic information system (GIS) company Sinergise will be acquired by Planet, the San Francisco-based operator of the largest Earth observation fleet of imaging satellites. The value of the deal has not been disclosed.

Satellite images provided to The Times by Maxar Technologies show that at least 11 of those had been on the street since March 11

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has broadcast some satellite photos showing smoke rising from Turkey's south and southwest, which have been battling raging wildfires over the past week.

High-resolution photos were taken by the American observation satellite WorldView-2 from Maxar from an altitude of 770 km.

High-resolution satellite images of large-scale forest fires in the Turkish resorts of Bodrum, Manavgat and Marmaris have been published by European Space Imaging.

What else can high-resolution imagery reveal?

Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades.

Satellite images show a deserted city.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras this week heralded the creation of a new national emergency service in the wake of last month's deadly wildfires in Attica, but in fact Greece already has an expert agency that has for years been offering its expertise via Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation program - chiefly to other countries though.