Türkiye to send new communications satellite into space in months

Published February 24,2024

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Türkiye will ship a Turksat 6A indigenous satellite tv for pc into area in just a few months, the nation’s business and expertise minister mentioned Friday.

“We are now carrying the experience we gained with imaging satellites to communication satellites. Turksat 6A will be our first national communication satellite,” Mehmet Fatih Kacir mentioned in a program at Gaziantep University the place he met the nation’s first astronaut, Alper Gezeravci.

Kacir mentioned Türkiye will ship 6A to area in just a few months and it’ll change into one of many 10 international locations with the potential.

Turksat 6A is the title of the indigenous satellite tv for pc that was created because of a challenge contract signed between the Transport and Infrastructure Ministry underneath the auspices of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turksat and TUBITAK.

The satellite tv for pc, Türkiye’s largest analysis and improvement challenge, reached the ultimate stage upon meeting, integration and testing phases on the Space Systems Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) Center, inbuilt collaboration with Turksat and the nation’s drone-maker Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

Turksat 6A, with an influence of seven.5 kilowatts, is deliberate to be positioned at 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles) in a geocentric orbit, from the place it can attain Southeast Asia, the place current satellites don’t present service.

Turksat at present operates 5 communication satellites: Turksat 3A, 4A, 4B, 5A and 5B, at 31 levels, 42 levels and 50 levels in east orbits, reaching a inhabitants of three.5 billion all over the world.

With the launch of Turksat 6A, international locations equivalent to India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will likely be inside Türkiye’s protection space, thus growing the inhabitants reached by the nation’s satellites from 3.5 billion to greater than 5 billion, which corresponds to 65% of the world’s inhabitants.

With the commissioning of Turksat 6A, the agency’s satellite tv for pc service exports to the area are deliberate to extend considerably.