The President of the HSC, Prof. Ioannis Daglis, was an invited speaker at the event, which was organized for the students of the STAR program and the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the UOA. His speech can be found here.
The director of the Inter-Institutional Graduate Program in “Space Technologies, Applications and Services” (STAR), Prof. Antonios Paschalis, and the chair of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Prof. Vaios Lappas, are organizing a Career Day in Space Technologies, Applications and Services Made in Greece for their students. The event will take place on Monday, May 8th, 2023, at 9:00 a.m., hosted by the Eugenides Foundation.
On Monday, March 13th, the President of the H.S.C., Prof. Ioannis Daglis, visited Khalifa University, the top ranking University of the United Arab Emirates, where he gave a colloquium and had a series of contacts.
On Wednesday, March 8th, the President of the H.S.C., Prof. Ioannis Daglis, presented a paper on the role of the H.S.C. in the national Earth observation microsatellite program at the SpaceOps 2023 international conference in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
During the 18th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference in Tel Aviv, the President and the CEO of the Hellenic Space Center met the Chairman and the Director of the Israel Space Agency (ISA), Prof. Dan Blumberg and Mr. Uri Oron respectively. The meeting addressed matters of mutual interest and investigated possibilities of cooperation between the two agencies. The Ambassador of Greece in Israel, Mr. Kyriakos Loukakis, as well as Mr. Nikolaos Christodoulidis and Mr. Vasilios Liveris, Economic and Commercial Office of the Greek Embassy, also participated in the meeting.
The President and CEO of the H.S.C., Prof. Ioannis Daglis and Dr. Nick Sergis, participate in the international congress “Abu Dhabi Space Debate”, which takes place in the United Arabic Emirates on December 5 and 6, 2022. In addition to the plenary sessions, Prof. Daglis and Dr. Sergis further participated in the focused workshops “Reducing Space Threats” and “Space Sustainability”.
Dr. Nick Sergis, C.E.O of the Hellenic Space Center, will be serving as a Chair of the Europlanet Society Southeast Regional Hub, taking over from Prof. Ioannis Daglis, H.S.C. President, who has served in the role since 2019.
On Thursday, November 3rd,The President of H.S.C., Prof. Ioannis A. Daglis, participated as an invited panelist in the plenary session “Digital Ocean: from Sea-bed to Space” of the MAST Med 2022 conference, which was held at Grand Hyatt Hotel Athens.
The Hellenic Space Center participates in the event organized by the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics of the UOA Department of Physics in the scope of World Space Week, on Saturday, October 8th, 2022. Personnel of the H.S.C. will demonstrate how a space mission for searching signs of life on Mars can be developed, including a presentation, the construction of a rocket, a spacecraft, and a robotic rover, using a LEGO kit, as well as an astrobiology experiment. Reservations are required for participation, which can be made through a google form. More information about the event is available (in greek) in the Physics Department announcement and the Facebook event page.
The President, I. Daglis, the C.E.O, N. Sergis, and Scientific Personnel of the H.S.C. (D. Bliziotis, Earth Observation) are attending the International Astronautical Congress 2022, the annual summit of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), which is held in Paris, on September 18-22. The President of the H.S.C., Prof. Ioannis Daglis, attended IAF’s General Assembly on Sunday, September 18, addressing the election of the H.S.C. as a new member of the IAF.