Hellas 2nd Bird RFI “issued”
Hellas Sat is understood to have issued a RFI for its second satellite, to be co-located at 39 deg East. Hellas Sat Consortium’s CEO Christodoulos Protopapas, speaking exclusively to Inside Satellite at last week’s Dubai CabSat show, said the company’s first satellite (somewhat confusingly called Hellas-Sat 2 and launched last May) is now 20% full, and is 100% full for this summer’s Athens Olympic Games.

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