Ready for launch is the second satellite built in Xanthi by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH).

This is the satellite named Duthsat-2 (Democritus University of Thrace Satellite 2), which was delivered by students and the department’s administration to launch, according to planning, by the Vandenberg Space Force Base in the US, on Sunday, June 225, 2025 at 5:30 pm.

The Duthsat-2 satellite is 10 x 20 x 30 cm and a mass of about 10 kg, which ranks him in the nano-satellite category. Its design and construction follows the international Cubesat satellite standards, which consist of multiples of a basic structural unit called 1U and has a size of 10 x 10 x 10 cm, ie the Duthsat-2 is 6U satellite.

It is the second nanodorian to be built at the Dimitrite University of Thrace, after the Duthsat GR01 satellite, which was 2U. The Duthsat-2 satellite was designed and manufactured entirely in the facilities and laboratories of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Xanthi, with the participation of engineers, postgraduate and undergraduate students/students of the Department.

This satellite aims to demonstrate the capabilities and operation of a secure telemetry system and will also be able to detect oil spills and deliberate discharge of ships (Bilge Water), representing more than 70% of total marine pollution from oil.

The main objective of the Duthsat-2 satellite is to show the possibility of detecting similar spots from a small satellite, and to be the precursor of multiple satellite satellites aimed at continuously monitoring the Greek marine environment, and reporting similar events in real time.

The project is being developed in the context of the cooperation of the General Secretariat for Telecommunications of the Ministry of Digital Governance and the European Space Agency (ESA) funded by the Recovery and Resilience Fund.

Satellite oscillation tests, which are necessary before its launch, took place at the state -of -the -art facilities of Sunlight Group in Neos Olbio Xanthi, while in the construction of the plaques and in the satellite wiring we were assisted by Prisma Electronic SA, at its facilities in Alexandroupolis.